#walls

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#day #each #glass #great #i

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home. ↗

— Jane Clayson

#home #important #important job #job #most

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers. ↗

— Celia Johnson

#i #liked #thrillers #walls

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#poverty #walls #change

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#home #house #imprisoned #memories #paintings

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls. ↗

— Heather Bixler

#christian-living #god #inspirational-quotes #jesus #pride

There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much of life is discovering who you are. When you find out, you also realize there are places you can no longer go, things you can no longer do, words you can no longer say. ↗

— P.S. Baber

#life

...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up. ↗

— Philip J. Hilts

#memory #personality #understanding-others #nature