Walls

Famous quotes containing the word walls:

“The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, “Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.””
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“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)