1,078 Quotes About Wall

  • Author Alcaeus
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    Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

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  • Author Ann Aguirre
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    I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

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  • Author Aravind Adiga
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    India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

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  • Author Barbara Amiel
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    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.

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  • Author Barbara Amiel
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    There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

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  • Author Barbara Amiel
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    Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

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  • Author Bill Ayers
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    I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

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  • Author Cecelia Ahern
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    When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.

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  • Author Conrad Aiken
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    The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.

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