Quotes About Fortification

Angeles was safe from invasion; the invaders wouldn't find a place to park—I

We're all stuck in armor of a kind. Yours is merely easier to find.

granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.

Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.

Defence is our best attack.

The thing for me is my defence: as long as my defence is in good order then I feel the rest of my game can expand from there.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Nailing my door shut at night wasn't exactly elegant, but it was a pretty effective deterrent.

You only had to be in one fight to know what a beautiful thing a trench could be. The first minié ball whizzes by your head, and you're a digging man evermore.

about someone wearing body armor. It's

Pompeya contaba con vino, cereales, lana, metalistería, aceite de oliva, un ambiente de pujante prosperidad y diez atalayas estratégicas empotradas en la muralla de la ciudad. —¡Es un lugar que se propone durar!— exclamé y fue uno de mis comentarios más sagaces.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

They've strengthened the walls since last year. I wouldn't fancy trying to storm the place." "Don't pretend you'd have the guts to storm the place" "I wouldn't fancy telling someone else to storm the place" "Don't pretend you'd have the guts to give the orders" "I wouldn't fancy watching you tell someone else to storm the place." "No.

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Each time I look at you, I marvel at the feat of organic engineering that's allowed you to create such a fortification within a perfect composition of female flesh.

Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.

The rooted pathways offered here are not meant as a definitive list but as waymarkers and fortification for all of us seeking our unique, bewildering, awkward way through the essential question of how to live on our broken, imperiled, beloved earth. It is the question Thoreau asked. The one that Mary Oliver, who passed just before I wrote these words, has perhaps framed most beautifully: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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

but wanted it protected.

From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

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

Guarding and defending is not easy.