Life there was hard and it made people hard.
– Jeannette Walls
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- As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had. – Jeannette Walls
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- It’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do. – Jeannette Walls
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- You’re not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. – Jeannette Walls
- One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description) – Jeannette Walls
- Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. – Jeannette Walls
- The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!! – Harrish Sairaman
- The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves – Treasa Ni Ghulaa Clain
- Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. – Jill Telford
- Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. – Doug Cooper
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- We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. – Aaron Sorkin
- The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. – Jeannette Rankin
- I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war – Jeannette Rankin
- Do not partner with fear to help you make decisions – Jeannette Gregory
- The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them – Sunday Adelaja
- Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God’s people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall. – Ellen J Barrier
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- The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside. – Darnell Lamont Walker
- When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. – Jean Vanier
- Learn to love people unconditionally. The light of love sees no walls. – Suzy Kassem
- Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It’s a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon. – Cherise Sinclair
- …within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been… – John J Geddes
- I wanna know what’s going on out there. I’d hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant! – Hajime Isayama
- Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light. – Seth Adam Smith
- Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. – Drew Myron
- We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness. – Mary E DeMuth
- Be brave. You didn’t travel this far to languish within the walls of your comfortable self. – Sandra Vischer