Wall Quotes - Page 6

• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Fear, War, Heart

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Powerful, Moving

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• I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Trading Floor, Camaraderie, Streets

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• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

  Amy Goodman

  Party, Numbers, Tea

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

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• In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Views, Names

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• When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

  Julio Iglesias

  Tired, Long, Generations

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

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• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

  Ned Sublette

  Principles, African Music, Broke

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.409, Chicago Review Press

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• Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

  Susan Wiggs

  Men, Essence, People

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• My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

  Kristin Hersh

  Brother, Years, Staring

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• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

  Max Levchin

  Sleep, Guy, Gone

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• In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

  Grace Slick

  School, Artist, People

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• You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

  Dylan Moran

  Talking, Giving, Laughing

  "Half-cut? I'd be entirely cut, sliced and diced every which way". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2006.

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• If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

  Brian Bosworth

  Football, Running, Morning

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• And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.

  Rae Earl

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.

  John P. Kotter

  Appreciation, Doors, People

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Black, Capes, Ladybugs

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• What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

  Elie Wiesel

  Civilization, Magic, Television

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• He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

  Robert Musil

  Running, Freedom, Frustration

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• A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Space, Pieces

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• The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

  Angela Merkel

  War, Opportunity, Order

  "German Chancellor Merkel addresses Congress". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2009.

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, War, Past

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• We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Destiny

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Cold

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed.

  Mark Weiser

  Lying, Long, Waiting

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• As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Squirrels, Tree

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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