The Wall Quotes

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

An art book is a museum without walls.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

We need to build a wall...I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall...

Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

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

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.