Quotes About Walls

High on the battlements, on one of the many turrets situated along the walls, Queen Deborah, the Queen Mother, handed the crossbow back to the sergeant standing beside her. He looked at her in admiration. She was gray-haired, and her face was lined and wrinkled. But she had just pulled off a remarkable shot at pretty much maximum range.

mine is the only photograph of an American actor to grace the walls of the Actors' Bar at The Dirty Duck.

Spring-loaded, ceramic bolts shot home, the impact shivering through the walls of the world.

The walls of Her office were cinder block and limpid shatterproof, offering a panoramic view of Eilidon's rooftops and towers.

Most saw those walls as protection from danger, but I had recognized, somewhere deep in my soul, that not all threats came from without.

As for Chartres's famous flying buttresses, the first ever constructed, they were built to relieve stress on the cathedral's walls, so that windows could be available for yards and yards of glittering stained glass.

And that is why, when attempting to balance and evaluate their investment port-folio, people often err by failing to knock down mental walls among accounts. As a result, their true portfolio mix—the combination of stocks, bonds, real estate, insurance policies, mutual funds, and the like—is often not what they think, and their investment performance often suffers.

the mind poet stays in the house / the house is empty and it has no walls / the poem is seen from all sides / everywhere / at once.

Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

In Bavaria, many homes have a cosy room which is all wood and is filled with special things. My grandfather had such a room, and he made the panels on the walls himself; each one told a story.

Evening: New York Blue dust of evening over my city, Over the ocean of roofs and the tall towers Where the window-lights, myriads and myriads, Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.

Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.

Emotional intensity seemed to meet and mingle with an air of indifference, even of cruelty within these ancient walls. Youth and Time here had made, as it were, some compromise.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

Angels would be unable to suckle their young at Gaea's breast if they left the great towers. And we could not live clinging to the walls.

The hard, dark walls threw her song back until the black hub rang with her defiant music.

And isn't that what we all want deep down? To drop the cynicism and defensiveness, to give up the mathematics of hatred, to melt the hardness of another's heart and in the process melt our own walls too?

Although the drizzle was excluded by roof and walls from the house, the moisture-charged atmosphere could not be shut out, and it made the interior only less wretched than outside the house.

the guard house of the bloodiest valley in Britain. One is not surprised to learn that an early owner was boiled alive by impatient neighbours; there is a menace about the massive walls, about the rain-soaked hillside, about the dreary gurgle of the river.

The eons of time have crumbled to dust the proud walls of its temples, but the wisdom of Babylon endures.

The walls of Babylon were an outstanding example of man's need and desire for protection.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.