Walls

Famous quotes containing the word walls:

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)