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Walls Quotes

I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It's been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction - he loves demolition and building new walls.

Life Walls Mom Construction Building

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Walls Speak Stone Never

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Peter Kropotkin

Character Walls Man Crime Will More

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

Natalia Ginzburg

Walls I Am Child Trees Walking She

I have never even considered a future outside the walls of the WWE. However, sometimes life takes an unexpected turn, and while it is the most difficult decision I have ever made, it is time for me to move on.

Life Future Time Decision Walls Me

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Life Walls People Me Believe Advice

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Richard Lovelace

Walls Prison Stone Cage Iron Make

Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Work Walls Sometimes Plans Office

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

Walls Building Need Got English

We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Walls Doing Trying Understand Herd

There is a seductive simplicity in Donald Trump's vision to build walls and ban refugees to protect American interests. But we must always remember that we create far greater opportunity for all Americans when we enable the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of people globally to take root here.

Opportunity Vision Creativity Walls

I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

Love Walls Fun Drawing Play Ahead

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

Walls People Voice House Duty

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

Walls Feel Remember You Bed Kid

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

Good Walls I Am Warm House White

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

Walls War World Others Outside Over

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Kurt Eichenwald

Life Home Excellence Walls Dawn

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Walls People World Church Want Get

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

Work Love Home Myself Walls Writing

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

Men Walls Growing Up Someone Growing

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

Walls Think Sex Bedroom Two Symbols

You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.

Dog Home Walls You Realize Presence

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Walls I Am Giving Way Head Against

'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.

John Mellencamp

Friend Childhood Walls Green Song

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