Quotes About Ramparts

#1. Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

Pierre Loti

#2. These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Franz Grillparzer

#5. crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model. She finds the opening atop the walls where four ceremonial cannons point to

Anthony Doerr

#6. If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Sun Tzu

#7. The castle's predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Under the radiant towers, the floodlit ramparts,
must have wondered at my impulse to touch her,
which was like touching myself,
the way your own hand feels when you hold it
because you want to feel contained.

Mark Doty

#9. At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.

Anthony Doerr

#10. That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build and then describe my own ramparts.

Brock Clarke

#11. Why was I not made of stone like thee?
Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire].

Victor Hugo

#12. The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark. Smoke chases dust; ash chases smoke. A newsstand floats, burning.

Anthony Doerr

#13. The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#14. I walk the ramparts at night in a white dress and a knee-length woven cloak. The weather's turning. I feel the roses in my cheeks.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?

Victor Hugo

#16. Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch . . . Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat . . . Why

Amor Towles

#17. Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.

W.B.Yeats

#18. When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

Saadi

#19. Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

Charlie Chaplin

#20. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#21. So what? We're supposed to whip Titus? Kill him? That would be Law." "Would it? Or would it just be vengeance?" "You're the poet. You figure it out." I kick a stone off the ramparts.

Pierce Brown

#22. Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

Satoru Iwata

#23. True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#24. I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

Glenn Tipton

#25. We have made Christmas about coming home and being comfortable. Jesus' approach to Christmas was to leave home and be uncomfortable.

Dick Brogden

#26. To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

George Meyer

#27. All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

Sara Paretsky

#28. Try to keep your rest periods between sets down to a minute or less. In the first minute after a weight-training exercise you recover 72 percent of your strength, and by 3 minutes you have recovered all you are going to recover without extended rest.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#29. Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.

Cheryl Strayed

#30. Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle.

#32. One heartbeat passed and then another, and the moment felt hot and frozen at the same time. Then he smiled, and it was sunshine and heat and unspoken promises wrapped in a single expression.

Colleen Houck

#33. Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#34. He that has many friends, has no friends.

Aesop