Great Wall Quotes

• If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

  Jerry Falwell

  President, United States, Presidency

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• We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.

  Zhang Xin

  Wall, Pyramids, Quality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

  Leroy Chiao

  Photography, Wall, Eye

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• I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Wall, Reading

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.93, Penguin

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• Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

  Karl Pilkington

  Wall, Honest, China

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Men, Bridges

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• The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

  Yang Liwei

  Beautiful, Wall, Space

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• Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Wall, Ideas, America

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• There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

  Gail Mazur

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Wall

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• Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

  David Letterman

  Wall, White, House

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• No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Decision, Choices

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

  Richard Bode

  Wall, Men, Songbirds

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• I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

  Justin Zackham

  Wall, Pyramids, Obsessed

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• On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  Zhang Xi

  Football, Wall, Weekend

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• In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Wall, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Wall, War

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Southern, Borders

  "Trump's 'great wall': How much will it cost? Who's paying?". www.cbc.ca. January 25, 2017.

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• Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now?  Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you?  To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Wall, Men

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

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• I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

  Pico Iyer

  Wall, Moving, Order

  "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

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• But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

  Abby Sunderland

  Wall, Blue, Looks

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.

  Peter Hessler

  Wall, Phones, Cells

  Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.94, Canongate Books

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

  Karl Pilkington

  Wall, Might, Facts

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.127, Canongate Books

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• There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wall, Mountain, Depth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “On a Chinese Screen”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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