Quotes About Walls

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Just be strong enough to fight adversity with pride and satisfaction. Strong walls may shake up in storm but they never collapses and remain straight with pride.

I told them,' he said to me. 'I told them and I told them. When there is rot in the walls, there is only one remedy.' The purple bruise at my throat was turning green at its edges. I pressed it, felt the splintered ache. Tear down, I thought. Tear down and build again.

hire him to enlarge their houses. He would arrive with his tools, begin taking down the walls, pulling up the floors. But whenever he found some problem underneath that must first be fixed, they frowned. That was not in the agreement! Of course not, he said, it has been hidden in the foundation, but look, there it is, plain as day.

In Wexford non c'è niente di cupo. Il sole sorge molto vicino alla città e a volte sembra che si levi tra le case. Il vento disperde semi contro i muri e lungo i bordi dei tetti, così, se alzi lo sguardo, tra te e il cielo puoi vedere sbocciare le margherite.

He's instructed the boys to conjugate the verb 'incarcerate': the repeated hard c sound seems to scrape at the walls of the room, as if the very words themselves are seeking escape.

Silence has gossiping walls, emptiness slandering emptiness.

defence' might simply mean the duty of manning the walls in the event of an attack.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little why.

The average skyscraper is likewise supported by a skeleton, of steel. Its skin, or walls, are supported by the frame; they do not support the building. When the wall of a skyscraper is pricked, it leaks air, and unless its skeleton has suffered a seriously deleterious blow, the building does not fall down.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

No, I'm not a bi.... I just don't care anymore. I'm sick of taking down my walls for people that want to hurt me. I'm sick of caring about people who don't even know I exist. I've been hurt so many times that I don't want it to happen anymore. So maybe I'm a bit bitter, but I'm not a bi.... Just hurt.

I saw her thus, solid, flushed, opulent and captive, returning home quite naturally with myself, as a woman who was my own property, and, protected by its walls, disappearing into our house. Unfortunately, she seemed to feel herself a prisoner there, and to share the opinion of that Mme. de La Rochefoucauld who, when somebody asked her whether she was not glad to live in so beautiful a home as Liancourt, replied: "There is no such thing as a beautiful prison

Moreover the Verdurins, through that inevitable progress of asstheticism which ends in biting one's own tail, declared that they could not stand the modern style (besides, it came from Munich) nor white walls and they only liked old French furniture in a sombre setting.

There is a strange, mineral scent in the air. As soon as we enter the compound surrounded by al the granite walls, the day turns colorless, shadowless. It's neither warm nor cold, though we shiver in our coats.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

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

If ever it seems good to God that the Turk should fall upon Germany, those mounds piled up at great expense and toil will not protect us, and in that case I would certainly not like to stay in this town; I would rather crawl out. But when we bend our knees and cry out to our Creator, He will be able to surround us with walls of fire, as is testified in Ps. 125:2: "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and for-evermore.

As he struck the terrible, fratricidal blow, he shouted (in Livy's words): 'So perish anyone else who shall leap over my walls.' It was an appropriate slogan for a city which went on to portray itself as a belligerent state, but one whose wars were always responses to the aggression of others, always 'just'.

Because the gliding search of our life Is lacking in one quality, amusement, We shall often return To evenings, men, and walls of stone.

Lord of the seven winds, what a smile! He could pull down the walls of a city with that smile. And I, like that walls of puerta de Tierra, could feel myself crumbling under its dazzling sparkle.

Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!

Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!