Quotes about Walls

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Ronald Reagan

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

Henry Rollins

Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside.

Josh Billings

There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

Augusto Roa Bastos

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher Hershey

I've learned of life this bitter truth/ Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,/ But rather,/ Build within thy own soul/ Fortresses!

Georgia Douglas Johnson

'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Joaquin Miller

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

Harold B. Lee

The manufacturing process, for example, doesn't always take place within four walls in a well-lit, well-insulated, guarded facility. Very often components are put together in various foreign locations.

Tom Lloyd

We need them to come here and break these walls by coming into Bethlehem, breaking them not physically but psychologically.

Victor Batarseh

This solves the problem of inefficiency inside the factory walls, but can create inefficiencies on the outside. While inventory no longer mounts up inside the factory, it builds up elsewhere in the supply chain.

Peter West

We'll be very happy to have these paintings on the walls again soon.

Tomas Rosander

It doesn't look good right now. In the back of the home, there are several cracks throughout the walls of the house.

Bruce Green

The only time we saw visible spoilage at the walls was when we failed to get a good seal between the sidewall and top sheets of film.

Rich Muck

These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid. We can see the surface is perfectly flat. This is the crucial material proof that we are talking pyramids.

Semir Osmanagic

You get the idea of the stratification of walls that creates the impression of an excavated site, of an archaeological dig.

Jorge Silvetti

The town goes into a lockdown form of protectiveness when 43's around, ... That is where Wolfeboro will see the major difference. It's going to be the protective walls that are necessary to be around the president of the United States.

Donald Fiske

That concept didn't quite work out well and the district subsequently put in temporary walls to create individual classrooms. That made it nearly impossible for one class to exit their classroom without disrupting another. It was not a good learning environment.

John Netwal

It's not like they have walls to climb over in order to vote.

John Maginnis

We have found the external walls have moved outwards ... if they go any further then we will have to suspend the rescue effort.

Rudi Zeif

There was a lot of fuel load, stuff in the garage, stuff stacked on the walls, on the dining room table. There was a lot of personal belongings just all over the place.

Capt. Emmit Kane

That's a significant difference from the nation's ethnic makeup. By 2050, only 50% of the U.S. population will be white. Swimming needs to reflect that. But there are cultural walls to break through.

Pat Hogan

I saw the bodies and blood covering the walls and ground. Many people died inside. Many died.

Abbas Talib

It's a very large home. There is a lot of openness inside the home -- a lot of nooks and crannies. The fire has gotten into the walls, which made it very difficult for us to fight.

Dan Schmidt

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

It's exciting. I can't wait to see the landscape, because the walls have been a part of the landscape for years.

Lynne Scott Safrit

Inside these walls, you can be anyone you want to be.

A. Johnson

It's not security measures, it's not prisons in Madrid and walls in Africa that will solve the problem.

Alpha Oumar Konare

Conventioneers that utilize this facility spend a lot more money outside these four walls than they do inside.

Jeremy Aguero

Children intrinsically understand that a home is not just the bricks and mortar that physically safeguard them, but the love, encouragement and togetherness they experience with their families within the walls of their homes.

Charlie Young

There are construction techniques that you can remove those walls, and lift them out, and set them in other locations.

Patrick Murphy

They may claim to be a company, but it is some guy, typically overseas at an Internet cafe. They can never track these people because they're in holes in the walls.

Fred Hubler

It'll be done within the walls.

Andrea Gilbert

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.

Bob Harrington

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- 'Stone walls do not a prison make,' but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.

Ambrose Bierce

Once we determine the benchmarks, we're going to come in with a full insulation package, attic, walls, and some work in the basement.

Bill Angell

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

Natalia Ginzburg

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet, ... I'm always in Africa . . . And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Harry Belafonte

The whole thing, ... has been about getting the right balance between who is Dilbert and who is the user. We didn't get rid of the walls because the walls are real for Dilbert.

Fred Dust

There's 150 years of fear, violence and pain soaked into those walls, ... The overall mood there is one of despair, and filming there gives the show grit and authenticity.

Wentworth Miller

I have kids sign the walls so they would feel like it's their place too. We get a lot of families and college students and we are hoping they will come back this year.

Jackie Spafford

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, ''Excuse me.''.

Joe Pesci

Since a gazette notification has been issued on the 1976 Act, we have directed our workers not to write on walls anywhere anymore.

Anil Biswas

If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would cover the roof repair but not individual unit repairs to things like the ceiling, walls, carpets or furniture.

Mary Alice

My walls outside must have some flowers,My walls within must have some books;A house that's small; a garden large,And in it leafy nooks.

William Henry Davies

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

Richard Stallman

Luzhkov doesn't understand the value of authenticity. For him, to restore means to demolish and rebuild something with a similar facade but with completely new walls and interior. He is absolutely sure that these copies are better than the originals.

Alexei Klimenko

[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The seeds of Islamic fundamentalism is all over Iraqi walls, ... He said that six months before anybody else in the media.

Ben Austin

This is extremely disappointing, because many people have worked very hard to help us find solutions so we didn't have to shut down. Now, we'll just have to come up with creative programming that is not confined to walls.

Jen Dibble

They tore down the walls that separated the houses. It is very much in a state of limbo They have gotten to the point of tearing it apart and putting it back together. It is very much like their lives.

Will Scheffer

I like the gardens with good bones and affirmed underlying structure.. well-marked paths, well-built walls, well-defined changes in level.

Russell Page

It's like going to one of those IMAX movies where you go out and you say, 'wow, that was great,' and then you puke, because your stomach is upset from watching the walls move. It's not good.You actually don't want your walls to move that much. It's like a fundamental thing among humans. You'd sort of like your walls to be steady.

Roger Ailes

We're not trying to create a city with walls around it that isolates from the world.

Paul Marinelli

If you have a problem with [water] condensation on some of your walls or other surfaces in a home, you need to have the house checked for mold.

Rachel Lipsey

It was about 9 by 11 and maybe 4 1/2 feet tall because it was a basement. It was just concrete, concrete floor concrete walls.

Roy Hallums

I saw the walls of my patio and three others flying past me, ... I had to duck down to keep from being hit.

Dorothy Patterson

This is where I scribbled on the walls when I was little. This is where I took my first steps. All that?s gone. I grew up, partly by choice, partly because of the Katrina storm.

Samantha Perez

The window busted, and the door got sucked out. I looked at my grandmother, and the walls were like Jell-O. The trailer was rocking back and forth. I jumped between the coffee table and couch, and I remember the trailer tipping.

Matt Suter

It's a good thing that we can come together. Communication is about building bridges, not walls. A lot of times we suppose things. All that does is make it more complicated. I feel very good about my promoter, and I hope they feel the same about me. Everything is running smooth, and it does give me peace of mind.

Juan Lazcano

There's a ton of gluing being done now. I don't think it should replace nailing, and the glue itself can be somewhat harmful to the hoof. But it is a terrific way to give the horse's hoof walls a break.

Rob Spencer

These walls are 18 inches thick and adequate shelter. There were medical supplies, food and water to sustain whoever was trapped here in a nuclear war that had to be cleared out.

Jim Montgomery

We didn't do a very good job on Walls to start the game and he got comfortable. When that happens, good players get in a rhythm. It didn't matter if we were contesting the shot or not contesting the shot, it just went in the hole.

Brynjar Brynjarsson

It seems like every other year there's another boom of movie stars dabbling in TV. The walls between film and TV have really broken down in the past five years.

Michael Schneider

It gets us out of these four walls.

Richard Stengel

It was done a lot. One of the ways people tend to get more bang for the buck is to paint the walls below the frieze and use papers for the frieze and ceiling. In fact, I used to do that when I lived in the Midwest, and it was hard to tell the difference between paint and papers.

Steve Bauer

At this point we need to find out what walls could be used for outside wall murals, how the walls would have to be prepared to take a mural and how the mural would get painted and preserved. There are many professional mural painters, but we could use local artists as well.

Barbara Porch

The walls that impeded communications have to come down and we have to focus R&D on products that are most likely to yield rewards.

Howard Stringer

[Organizers say they hope the exhibit will bring the unvarnished reality of the bus boycott home to viewers.] In some ways, we've romanticized the civil rights movement, ... We often forget just how strong the walls of segregation were, just how close to the surface racial hatred was. This wasn't simply a walk in the park.

Lonnie Bunch

Our systems-built homes have the advantage of being constructed inside in controlled environments under strict quality control. All the walls are built in jigs and are perfectly square. There are also cost advantages to bulk purchases of materials, and none of the building supplies have been subjected to rain or other weather damage in the building process.

Jeff Tryka

I think we've debated long enough, we need to secure our borders now. We need to ask the National Guard to get them involved. We need not to build walls, but we need to build some fences.

Vern Buchanan

OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite. His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse. Averil J.

Ambrose Bierce

That night, the girls were up until about two in the morning. They were bouncing off the walls.

Josh Marien

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, when it was the fashion to place furnishings along the walls, the chair rail prevented chairs from banging up against the wall and damaging the plaster surfaces. The dado and chair rail became more of a decorative feature in the Victorian era, when furnishings were moved out from the walls in various groupings.

Doug Bucher

We played there so many times. We've played on a stage against all four walls of that room.

John Dady

Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

Ellen DeGeneres

We could have spent thousands on corporate art and filled our walls with something that would be wonderful to look at, but it would be static. Our company is based on people and change and adaptability. What better than to have our very walls represent what we're about?

Janet Reid

I was there and all the walls were black and the phones were sitting there and not ringing and I was thinking, what have I done.

Alex Aguila

You can't miss it with all the pictures we have hanging on the walls (at school) of our (34) state finalists.

Duane Blackburn

It just makes it look older. That's kind of what they made for decoration back then. Back in the older days, there was always some type of skin hanging on the barn walls.

Tom Fuhrman

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Justin Glover

You see fully wainscoted walls in the first half of the 18th century. Wainscoting was also a sort of early insulation, especially for stone houses, where the walls could be cold and damp. Wood absorbs heat for a cozy feeling.

Doug Bucher

And the walls won't comment.

Judy Cooper

And of course this was a quixotic idea on his part: you have a nomadic people and you're going to enclose them within four walls.

Roberto Esposto

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

Bernard De Voto

The energy loss from a house is divided into three equal components: doors and windows; walls and the roof; and air leaks in and out.

Dick Hill

Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

Paris Hilton

These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid.

Semir Osmanagic

One can't build prisons and walls in Africa, on our territory. One won't regulate it that way.

Alpha Oumar Konare

We felt that the county meet was anyone's tournament. I knew we weren't down. The character in that room - you just have to be inside those Old Mill walls to feel it.

Jim Grim

Lack of affordable workforce housing creates quality-of-life issues. The people we want to help are the people who are your neighbors, people who work at the stores, at the coffee shops. They're teachers, nurses, police officers. One of the great thrills of my business is when I hand the keys to a first-time buyer and they walk into the place and it's theirs. I've had people kiss the walls.

Jeff Katz

MedOne is part of the Roman Catholic identity of St. Joseph Hospital, so when you speak about a church, you can define it in many ways, ... A church can be a building, and it can also be an organization of ministries that provide for the spiritual well-being of people ... for me the whole sense of 'church' is much broader than the four walls in which you go to worship.

Catherine Kelly

The walls between the Christian way of life and an American way of life are basically collapsed and they're assumed to be the same thing.

Tom Wright

We spend X amount of time within the actual walls and thereafter we're going to break quite a number of people out and scatter them into the winds and they're going to go to the four corners of the country in planes, trains and automobiles.

Paul Scheuring

I will put (the paintings) on the walls of my house, and in my safe when I leave. I was lax.

Michael Bakwin

Some of the inner walls will be removed and an area of the building will be made available and will be rented with shelving, shopping trolleys and wide isle suitable for wheelchair ready to go.

Peter Boylan

If the walls are too tall, when you sit down, you feel like you're in a playpen. When you're sitting on the porch, you want to be able to see the outside.

Dave Tibbetts

Re: William Morris 'He didn't quite bring down the Walls of Jericho so much as cover them in nice wallpaper.

Laurence Llewelyn bowen

You can't comprehend what is happening. And then all hell breaks loose. Things drop, walls crumble, dishes fall over, people are buried, people on one side of the bed could be killed and the other hardly touched. Who got injured, killed and survived was completely random.

Philip Fradkin

It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this to occur in a manner that has resulted in all this controversy. The county should foot the bill.

Gary Appelson