Bricks and mortar Quote by Sebastian Barry

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I’m disillusioned and don’t want to…

— Anaïs Nin

“Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries…

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren

“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.”

— Chris Everheart

“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten…

— Suzy Kassem

“I believed, and still believe, that you can build your dreams brick by brick. That you can accomplish anything with persistence.”

— Maurene Goo

“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

“almost all the wall posts, which arrived nearly as fast as I could read them, were written by people I’d never met and whom…

— John Green

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all…

— Nathalie M. Leblanc

“But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely…

— H.G. Wells