Quotes of Stronghold - somelinesforyou

“ To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven. ”

- Charles V

“ My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ To build castles in Spain. ”

- George Herbert

“ In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian's weapon. ”

- Martin Luther

“ And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. ”

- Bible

“ In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. ”

- Daniel Boone

“ Fighting men are the city's fortress. ”

- Alcaeus

“ In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. ”

- Margaret Valois

“ Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon. ”

- Doug Horton

“ We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor. ”

- Lucille Kallen

“ Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ”

- Francis Parkman

“ A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand. ”

- Francis Parkman

“ Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. ”

- George Savile

“ A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. ”

- James Otis

“ Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway? ”

- John Ensign

“ I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. ”

- Victoria Adams

“ Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress; those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out. ”

- Pierre Marie Quitard

“ By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible. ”

- Hallesby

“ Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man. ”

- Solomon

“ There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ It appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. ”

- John Keats

“ I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses. ”

- William Shakespeare
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