Famous quotes containing the words town and/or walls:
“Every town which we passed, if we may believe the Gazetteer, had been the residence of some great man. But though we knocked at many doors, and even made particular inquiries, we could not find that there were any now living.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)