Bones Quote by Francois Rabelais

“Nor was this lessened by the knowledge that it was only a wall. There was nothing rational about a wall, whether it encircled Berlin,…

— Dorothy Gilman

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.

— Aristophanes

“Being consulted again whether it were requisite to enclose the city with a wall, [Lycurgus] sent them word, 'The city is well fortified which…

— Plutarch

“No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong…

— George R.R. Martin

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high wall

— Anonymous

“A people ought to fight for the laws of the city as if they were its walls.”

— Karl R. Popper

“We built walls, and built them high. The walls would keep the gentiles and their terrifying world far away. The walls would protect us…

— Eishes Chayil

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

— Alcaeus

“As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made…

— Joe Biden

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke