Parapets Quotes

#1. Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft
A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,
A jest falls from the speechless caravan.

Hart Crane

#2. Apart, that is, from the line of artistically naked ladies along its parapets. They were holding urns; urns is art.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The Veretian palace, afroth with ornament, paid only lip service to defence. The parapets were purposeless curving decorative spires. The slippery domes that he skirted would be a nightmare in an attack, hiding one part of the roof from the other.

C.S. Pacat

#4. I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.

Mark Helprin

#5. The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

John Owen

#6. And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

James Elroy Flecker

#7. Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

Watchman Nee

#8. We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Julianne Moore

#9. The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

Paul Hawken

#10. Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

Robert Reich

#11. Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

Cornelia Connelly

#12. Politics is more difficult than physics.

Albert Einstein

#13. The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer ... is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

Vera Brittain

#14. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

#15. She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. They aimless halt, who halt for others.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Anonymous