Wall Quotes

3017 quotes by 1990 authors

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall. — Nancy Byrd Turner
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with… — Charles Lindbergh
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls. — Bob Brown
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the… — Stephen Crane
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. — Robin Sharma
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
Nobody intends to put up a wall! — Walter Ulbricht
A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war. — John F. Kennedy
When you see love between two persons, something is flowing, moving, changing. When there is love between two persons they live in an aura, there… — Rajneesh
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to… — John Donne
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on… — Donald Knuth
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good… — Lord Byron
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain… — Richard Bach
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the… — Michael Parenti
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,… — George Washington
Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon — Joyce Meyer
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze… — Nathaniel Philbrick
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the… — Barack Obama
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on… — Clifton Fadiman

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