City Walls Quotes
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City Walls Quotes & Sayings
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Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.
— Kahlil Gibran
Hope is a talent like any other.
— Storm Jameson
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
— Thucydides
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
— Epicurus
Sarah in the City of Moon' is about building bridges not walls.'-Fida Qutob
— Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob
A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.
— K.J. Parker
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.
— Alcaeus
I spent hours dreaming of the sunshine, the way it soaked into the city walls and made the yellow stones hot to lean on hours after the day had ended
— Megan Whalen Turner
Proverbs 25:28 Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
— Patrick Schwenk
The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. The
— Anthony Doerr
To love is to be destroyed, and to be loved is to be destroyed.
— Cassandra Clare
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.
— Jerry Lewis
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
the journey, still they moan and beat
against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city. — D.H. Lawrence
the journey, still they moan and beat
against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city. — D.H. Lawrence
And this is when I knew I was black for real.
This is when I knew black was a city
whose walls were constantly under siege.... — Roger Bonair-Agard
This is when I knew black was a city
whose walls were constantly under siege.... — Roger Bonair-Agard
Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
My next thought was that it might be a city of the jinn, inhabited by a race of demons, its walls the work of magic, it houses built of smoke.
— Jonathan Aycliffe
Don't be too nice to him," I teased. "He'll never leave.
— Juliet Blackwell
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
— Elliot Cowan
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
— William Greider
Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.
— Simon Beaufoy
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
— Rachel Hartman