Fortress Quotations

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

We can no longer be fortress America. I think we, like other industries, have been slow in understanding the need to communicate what we're doing to the public and opinion makers.

There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it

He decided he was going to make it to where it would never burn again. He did a pretty good job of making a fortress over there.

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

I think they'll look at our record at Lansdowne Road, ... There are not many teams that come and get a good result - we have turned it into a fortress and they know that they're going to be in for a tough game. Everybody is going to be working their socks off. On top of that we've got a lot of quality players and that will frighten them as well.

It is a massive move, the largest move that the EU has ever made. This proposal shows that any notion of fortress Europe is exaggerated.

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

We will also be planting native grasses and shrubs in the landscaping beds at Fortress Rosecrans. We are asking for volunteers to come out and help us with the project.

We are definitely keying off the look of the movies, ... Obviously, from the last scene of last year's finale when Clark threw the crystal, the Fortress of Solitude is going to play a part in season five.

There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm

We will be removing exotic plants at Fortress Rosecrans as well as on the greenway near the Overall Street trailhead,

What is going on in Belarus can be compared to the storm of a fortress. This was the first storm. We will use peaceful methods. We will surround that fortress and we will not retreat.

What happened today was (Martin) just blew an enormous hole in the fortress of the cable and broadcast monopoly,

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

If there's one property type that has absolutely sailed through all of the economic times that we've had, not just in the past few years but the past 10 or 15 years, it's been the regional malls, ... It's a fortress of shopping for consumers. This company is the largest. They trade at about a 7 percent yield and probably a good growth rate as well.

If we used that fortress mentality and created a sense of security and security zones, and wait for the insurgents to come to us and don't go after them . . . and protect the people inside that zone, allow them to feel more comfortable and more confident and allow them to get an economy going . . . then at that point Iraqis are going to be more willing to assume the front lines of that fortress.

In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened