Wall Quotes

• I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny, Flower, Twilight

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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• You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.

  Guy Doud

  Inspirational, Helping, Teach

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Recovery, Wings, Anorexia

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Unwanted

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Every wall is a door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Running, Way, Ifs

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.168, Delacorte Press

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• When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Roots

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• These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

  Morgan Freeman

  Hate, Enough Time, Ems

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• If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

  David Belle

  Past, Parkour, Banging

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• I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Years, Killing

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• You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

  Andrew Murphy

  Inspirational Life, Confined

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• They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Heart, I Hate You

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• I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

  Jim Rohn

  Disappointment, Next, Sunlight

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 26, 2012

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• And the walls became the world all around.

  Maurice Sendak

  World, Wild Things

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Humorous, Kissing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All things are possible.

  Libba Bray

  All Things

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.216, Delacorte Press

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• The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Night, Doors, Pay

  Oliver Goldsmith (1805). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc”, p.32

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• Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

  Richard Bach

  Order, Office, People

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• Building walls does not make any country great again.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Country, Building

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Life, Inspiration, Bridges

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• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Running, Country

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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• Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

  William Goldman

  Princess, Heart, Garden

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

  Dr. Seuss

  Shoes

  Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg (1974). “Wacky Wednesday”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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