Quotes About Walls

Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.

Un tableau, ... dit pensivement Houellebecq. En tout cas, j'ai des murs pour l'accrocher. C'est la seule chose que j'aie vraiment, dans ma vie : des murs." (p. 146)

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls—the demons' pen.

Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.

And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it's as ubiquitous as oxygen. It lives in the houses where we've slept, the kitchens where we've cooked, in the food we've prepared for the people we love and in the walls we have shaped with our hands.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Walmart...do they make walls there?

It seems as though the only things causing pain around here are these ridiculous walls we keep building.

Rutherford showed how radio waves could travel long distances, penetrate walls, and magnetize iron.

Secrets upon secrets. Thus by inexorable degrees does the love that dares not speak its name build walls instead, till a house is nothing but closets.

The words of the prophetsAre written on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sounds of silence.

Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

rnest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian word that meant "walled garden." I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew where the walls were and tended them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either side.

The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.