Quote by John Steinbeck

“Sometimes people put walls up to see who is strong enough to break them down!”

— Stephen Richards

“You see, long ago I built a wall, a defense mechanism as I recall.”

— Adiela Akoo

“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

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“There was no wall in her time.” “Right. And Queen Haywith refused to have one. She said a wall becomes a wall in the…

— Sage Blackwood

“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.”

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”

— Eishes Chayil

“But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Now that I had experienced real freedom, I’m not sure I would ever get used to walls again. Walls loomed, leaned in, and whispered…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“A battle, shield wall to shield wall. Linden wood to linden wood. She imagined meeting a man the size of Forthere, huge with battle…

— Nicola Griffith