Quotes & Sayings About Walls Ireland

Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico. — Lupita Nyong'o

In the month that she had lived at Bray, Maggie had felt pockets of this-this slowing down of time, these reverberations into the past. In America, everything was replaceable; ld stuf was thrown away quickly and entirely to make way for the next thing. But in Ireland, the ruined castles that dotted the landscape, the crumbling stnes walls that crisscrossed long-held family fields, these all provided the sense that the past drifted, but did not disappear. It was all around you, like mist. — Jessie Ann Foley

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too. — Isaac Asimov

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains. — Fausto Cercignani

Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart. — Patty Houser

How was she ever going to feel new, clean and hopeful, with her ugly past stalking her? — Candace Calvert

A landscape fossilized,
It's stone-wall patternings
Repeated before our eyes
In the stone walls of Mayo.
Before I turned to go
He talked about persistence,
A congruence of lives,
How, stubbed and cleared of stones,
His home accrued growth rings
Of iron, flint and bronze
- Belderg — Seamus Heaney

You're still here stitched into me, like threads in a sweater. Feeding me words that break me down and piece me back together, all at once. Tightening your grip, reminding me that I'm not alone. I never was. None of us ever are. You are still here stitched into the words on these walls. Every last one. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Think positive, Act positive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. — Paul Nouge

How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly a question of my waiting for him to stop and for it to be my turn to say something? For how many of us is that what conversation means - the setting up of our lines? — Alexander McCall Smith

The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths. — Lysa TerKeurst

The few lamps we left on softly illuminate the walls, and I think about all the paper around us, all this love and pain and fear and hope. We're surrounded by words. Nothing about this moment could be more perfect, because I'm absolutely in love with this room and the people in it, on the wall and otherwise. And with this one boy in particular. — Tamara Ireland Stone

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly. — Julia Child

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. — Thomas Pynchon

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work. — Edouard Boubat

If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says. — Ian McDonald