Stone Walls Quotes:

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Wall, Heart, Iron, Cold Heart, Stone Walls

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

- Richard Lovelace

source: 'To Althea, From Prison'

topic: Wall, Iron, Bars, Stone Walls, Imprisonment

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

topic: Wall, Foundation, Frost, Stone Walls

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.79, Courier Corporation

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature, Stone Walls, Green Fields

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

- Eiji Yoshikawa

topic: Wall, Together, Cracks, Stone Walls

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

- William Glasser

source: William Glasser, MD (2013). “Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology”, p.122, iUniverse

topic: Wall, May, Stones, Stone Walls

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

topic: Wall, Challenges, Doorways, Stone Walls, Attolia

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Wall, Giving Up, Stones, Stone Walls

When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)

- Roland Smith

topic: Wall, Writing, Imagination, Stone Walls, Livestock

When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

topic: Horse, Wall, Character, Stone Walls

One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

- John Burroughs

topic: Summer, Country, Wall, Country Roads, Stone Walls

The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Wall, Wind, Tree, Stone Walls, Willow Trees

November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

- Jean Hersey

source: Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

topic: Running, Morning, Wall, Stone Walls, Scallops

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Wall, Mirrors, Self, Stone Walls

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Wall, Islands, Tree, Stone Walls, Unreachable

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

topic: Wall, Character, Native American, Stone Walls, Alms

When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.

- Suhayl Saadi

topic: Fashion, Children, Wall, Stone Walls

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

- Jennifer Egan

source: Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.64, Anchor

topic: Wall, Water, Laughing, Stone Walls

Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.

- Deb Caletti

source: Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

topic: Beautiful, Wall, Real, Maybe Love, Stone Walls

It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.242, Hachette UK

topic: Wall, Nice, Garden, Stone Walls

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

- Gaby Hoffmann

source: "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

topic: Summer, Wall, Thinking, Stone Walls, Doulas

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

source: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “Carmilla”, p.32, Xist Publishing

topic: Dream, Wall, Dark, Stone Walls, Dark Room

I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg. - Lieutenant General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee after the initial Confederate victories on day one of the Battle of Gettysburg.

- Michael Shaara

source: "Fictional character: Lieutenant General James Longstreet". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. October 8, 1993.

topic: Wall, Distance, Believe, Stone Walls, Gettysburg

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with ***** frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

- Jean Webster

source: Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.108, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Wall, Fall, Air, Maple, Stone Walls

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Wall, Fall, Thinking, Stone Walls

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Wall, Men, Giving, Stone Walls

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.85, Univ of California Press

topic: Wall, Rain, Lakes, Stone Walls, Moats

What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Loyalty, Wall, Memories, Stone Walls, Chapel Hill

A smile costs nothing, but creates much, It happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever, It cannot be bought, begged, borrowed nor stolen, but it is Something that is no earthly good to anyone until it is given away. So if in your hurry and rush You meet someone, who is too weary to give you a smile, Leave one of yours, For no one needs a smile quite as much as the one who has "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

- Unknown

topic: Wall, Memories, Iron, Stone Walls

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Wall, Yelling, Drunk, Stone Walls

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

- Christopher Walken

source: Source: www.aboutfilm.com

topic: Wall, Thinking, Stones, Stone Walls

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Wall, Men, Leaving, Stone Walls

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Wall, Writing, Paper, Stone Walls, Gulags

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

- Scott Lynch

topic: Wall, Iron, Band, Stone Walls, Caged

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Peace, Wall, War, Stone Walls

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

topic: Wall, Mind, Want, Stone Walls

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls - that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

- Teresa de la Parra

topic: Wall, Memories, Garden, Stone Walls, Tombs

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

- H. G. Wells

topic: Pain, Doors, Voice, Stone Walls, Sea Breeze

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.188, University of Georgia Press

topic: Wall, Punishment, Stones, Stone Walls