Great Wall Quotes:

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: President, United States, States, Great Wall

We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.

- Zhang Xin

topic: Wall, Pyramids, Quality, Building Things, Test Of Time

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

- Leroy Chiao

topic: Wall, Eye, Challenges, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Children, Wall, Reading, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

- Karl Pilkington

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

topic: Wall, Honest, China, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Wall, Men, Bridges, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

- Yang Liwei

topic: Beautiful, Wall, Space, My Space, Looking Beautiful

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

topic: Wall, Decision, Choices, Choices And Decisions, Great Wall

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

- David Letterman

topic: Wall, White, House, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Wall, Ideas, America, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Beautiful, Wall, America, Great Wall

There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

- Gail Mazur

topic: Letting Go, Buddhist, Wall, Postcards, Alamo

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

- Richard Bode

topic: Wall, Men, Backyards, Exotic Places, Songbirds

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

- Justin Zackham

topic: Wall, Pyramids, Obsessed, Great Wall

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

- Zhang Xi

topic: Football, Wall, Weekend, Great Wall

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

- Donald Trump

source: Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

topic: Wall, Mexican Border, Southern, Stupidest, Great Country

This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Source: blog.sfgate.com

topic: Strong, Wall, War, Space Program, Great Wall

We are not talking about isolation. We're talking about security. We're not talking about religion. We're talking about security. Our country is out of control. People are pouring across the southern border. I will build a wall. It will be a great wall. People will not come in unless they come in legally. Drugs will not pour through that wall.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Country, Wall, Talking, Great Wall

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

- Dave Mustaine

source: "Megadeth Frontman Dave Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum" by David Sessions, www.thedailybeast.com. February 15, 2012.

topic: Wall, Mexican, President, Mexican Border, Great Wall

Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good, including the construction of a great wall, which we will have built in record time. And at a reasonable cost, which you never hear from the government.

- Donald Trump

source: "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

topic: Wall, Government, Years, Deportation, Great Wall

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Wall, Swamps, Drains, Great Wall

President-elect [Donald] Trump has said thousands of times, I will build a wall. He didn't just say he'll build a wall. I'll build a great wall and it will be a beautiful wall, and I'll make the Mexicans pay for it.

- Steve King

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Beautiful, Wall, President, Great Wall

I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.

- David Copperfield

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Wall, Thinking, Years, Full Circle, Great Wall

Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

topic: Children, Wall, Men, Oddballs, Plentiful

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that ***** from space without a telescope.

- Stephen King

topic: Wall, Writing, Simple, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Wall, Mountain, Valleys, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

- Steven Saylor

topic: Wall, Past, Reality, Huntress, Meticulous

I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

- Karl Pilkington

topic: Wall, Might, Facts, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China

History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

- Han Suyin

topic: Wall, Ignorance, Past, Relinquishing, Pushing Back

I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.

- Peter Hessler

source: Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.94, Canongate Books

topic: Wall, Cells, Phones, Discs, Great Wall

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

- Abby Sunderland

source: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Wall, Blue, Looks, Tsunami, Great Wall

Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

- Pico Iyer

source: "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

topic: Wall, Moving, Order, Sleepwalking, Grand Canyon

I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

- Stephen King

source: Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

topic: Wall, Thinking, Race, Great Wall, Bermuda

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

- John Hench

topic: Children, Wall, Skills, Great Wall