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“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”

Thinking Kids Cities Class Tree Wall Areas Towns Impulse Climbs Small Town Dance Class Rural Areas Boyish

Author:Jamie Bell

“Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.”

Minutes Wall Towns Adolescence Cockroaches

Author:Gail Sheehy

“My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.”

Half Journey Feet Fronts Wall Kissing Towns Clouds Towers Prophecy Wanton Our Town

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8

“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”

Knows Wells Said Strong Cities Virtue Security Military Wall Citizens Discipline Stronger Towns Bones Secure Experts Do You Know Pointing Great Cities Military Discipline

Author:Francois Rabelais

“There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.”

“The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.”

Looks Important Faces Sides Views Cities Darkness Saws Sky Wall Kings Summer Window Towns Blue Hills Sat Valleys Roof Palaces Stairs Faded Blue Sky Framed Homesickness Far Side City Walls

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!”

People Thinking Knows Needs May Said War Law Wall Kings Protect Ordinary England Towns Savages Ordinary People Making Peace

Book:Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION

Source: Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION

“Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.”

Heart Wall Civilization Organization Towns Civilized Ritual Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life Head And Heart

Book:Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

“Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose.”

Ifs Said Lost Fire Wall Highest Towns Police Rose Glasses Tricks Flames Kitchen Grandmother Witch Toms Daddy Darling Saffron

Author:Hilary McKay

“All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.”

Ifs Hard Stuff Cities Forever Wall Stones Towns Links Stomach Metals Filling Fragments Bumps Wherever You Are Pact Always And Forever Chinks

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”

People Children Book Hate Wife Wall I Hate Towns University Pregnant Hideous Oxford Pregnant Wife

Author:T. S. Eliot