Quotes About Building Walls Around Yourself

#1. She relaxed against him, her head tucked against his neck. He closed his eyes to better memorize the way she felt in his arms, since he must never hold her like this again.

Melanie Dickerson

#2. I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Aleksa Palladino

#3. In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#4. We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.

Beatrice Bruteau

#5. I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is.

Philippa Gregory

#6. Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.

Neil Gaiman

#8. But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Francis Bacon

#9. Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God's way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Kimberly Novosel

#11. I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

Sara Gilbert

#12. Reece ... Reed ... isn't that a silly coincidence? he asks, his mouth twisting in a grim smile that neither reaches his blue eye nor his green one.

Amy A. Bartol

#13. Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

Carly Fiorina

#14. I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

David Sedaris

#15. Hate isn't the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn't free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you've created a new person, a new life that you can live with.

Rasmenia Massoud

#16. In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

Kenny Werner

#17. 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

#18. Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

David Dastmalchian

#19. But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Stephen King