Walled City Quotes

#1. Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Sophocles

#2. Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the walled City.

Ryan Graudin

#4. An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.

Nimrat Kaur

#5. I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

Christopher Bollen

#6. Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up there for all eternity.

Ryan Graudin

#7. Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.

Ryan Graudin

#8. It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.

Ryan Graudin

#9. There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.

Ryan Graudin

#10. Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to flame the night
Verse inscribed as written light

Munia Khan

#11. One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. This is my world. Wide and open and waiting.

Ryan Graudin

#13. God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed ... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. The braid is always stronger than the strand.

Ryan Graudin

#15. I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

Michael Mina