Quotation Explorer - 'Walls'

I was just trying to open the doors... but walls fell down - Saket Assertive
You think I'm prettyWithout any make-up onYou think I'm funnyWhen I tell the puch line wrongI know you get meSo I'll let my walls come down, down - Katy Perry
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. - George Eliot
Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things. - J. Loren Norris
Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You can break the walls of limitations with the power of your dreams and imagination. - Debasish Mridha
I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried. - Richelle E. Goodrich
We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care. - Matchbox 20
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. - T.K. Naliaka
The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender nor retreat. - William Travis, at the Alamo
Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Waves of positivity and possibilities send tiny ripples of hope to wash away the walls of negativity. - Debasish Mridha
How high must we build these walls Around the fields of paradise? - Ricardo Pinto
He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven by frost, Celtic magic still brooding on the wild hills and in the black depths of the forest, the rosy marbles stained with rain, and the walls growing grey. - Arthur Machen
The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves - Teresa Clyne
Meditate on the Word within the closed walls of your heart to make it stronger through agape. - Steven Chopade
The more you hide, the higher the walls around you gets. The more you cry in silence, the thicker it becomes. - Akshay Vasu
From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything. - Jaeda DeWalt
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. - Isabel Paterson
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. - Ross Macdonald
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. - Robert Ingersoll
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. - C. S. Lewis
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton
The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around? - Richie Norton
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . - Aristophanes
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. - John Locke
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. - Ellen DeGeneres
The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away. - Shannon L. Alder
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. - Ross Macdonald
If walls could talk - scratch that, if walls could make sarcastic comments... well, things would be interesting. - Meghan (Apriceno) Carr
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- "Stone walls do not a prison make," but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets. - Ambrose Bierce
The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. - Darnell Lamont Walker
As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls. - Sonia Sotomayor
I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around. - Elin Stebbins Waldal
I was just trying to open the door... but the walls fall down - Saket Assertive
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. - Charles Bukowski
Let us make this world a house of love and peace. Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice. Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice. Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace. - Debasish Mridha
Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls. - Adrienne Rich
As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars. - Jerry Spinelli
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. - Pablo Neruda
Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness. - Ikechukwu Izuakor
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists. - Carla H. Krueger
...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins. - Cindee Snider Re
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. - Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. - The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Download Free 90541
...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been... - John J. Geddes
Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls. - William Shakespeare
The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works - Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes we need to just brush away our pride, break down the walls around our hearts, and open up to those we truly care for. - Imania Margria
Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in and let themselves be stepped all over. This equals unhealthy. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view. - Susan J. McIntire
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou
Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted, but rather where you are welcomed by the people, the walls, the tiles on the floor, the followers beside the door, the play of life, the very grass. - Scott Russell Sanders
Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. - Jill Telford
There is no separation between the gospel and culture, between how we live in society and how we live in our private lives, between the lordship of Jesus inside the four walls of a church building and outside that building. - Michael Brown
Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. - Margaret Chittenden
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. - Merce Cunningham
There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe. - Charles Bukowski
Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened? - Israelmore Ayivor
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars. - Widad Akreyi
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world. - Goldie Hawn
The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art. - Henry David Thoreau
The walls of the school can't stop the education. - Tanmaya Guru
Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future! - - Anonymous teacher
Lovelove can build a bridge,but how strong is the pillars?a bread to share togetheri see you in broken glassesyour efforts seem to be lesslove can build a bridgejust understand the foundationBuild your walls with endurance. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
Choose a leader who will build bridges - not walls. A leader who will promote peace - not wars. A leader who believes in equality - not discrimination. A leader who is transparent - not secretive. A leader who will speak for all - not just animals. - Mizan Chaudhury
Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling. - Munia Khan
Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want - Joshua Wright
Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church - Sunday Adelaja
In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans - Sunday Adelaja
We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges. - DaShanne Stokes
This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now. - L.J. Smith
The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out. - J. Loren Norris
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. - J.R.R. Tolkien
my sword reappeared in my pocket.yeah,great timing.now i could attack the walls all i wanted.my cell had no bar,no window,not even a door - Rick Riordan
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. - Octavia E. Butler
It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! - Steven Magee
If perception were reality, bats could fly through cave walls. - Marty Rubin
The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism! - Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres
We claim to have the light in the Church yet we want to lock ourselves within the four walls of that same Church. - Sunday Adelaja
Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control. - Auliq Ice
Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just-- Maybe I have too much respect for walls... or something. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
Building bridges takes us further than building walls. - DaShanne Stokes
Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity. - Debasish Mridha
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. - Charles Bukowski
Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside. - Josh Billings
I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini
There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind. - Otto Frank
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. - Jane Goodall
I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeon,In the round-tower of my heart,And there will I keep you forever,Yes, forever and a day,Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,And moulder in the dust away! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me. - Alice Munro
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker. - Gabrielle Zevin
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. - Ellen DeGeneres
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. - George W. Bush
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.
A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself. - Barack Obama
The walls are the publishers of the poor. - Eduardo Galeano
Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets. - Anthony Liccione
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. - Harold B. Lee
I am no blank slate for love to write on.My heart has walls marred with cracks,bloodstains, and bullet holes;graffitied over by past lovers. - John Mark Green
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