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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
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 Xin
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images. -- John Hench
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
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core. -- Evan Osnos
Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant. -- Gene Luen Yang
The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China]. -- Yang Liwei
Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.' -- David Letterman
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably. -- Steven Saylor
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
If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in. -- Dave Mustaine
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
You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it. -- Mathias Rust
Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. -- Chuck Schumer
We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp. -- Donald Trump
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. -- Chris Darwin
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster -- Benjamin Graham
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. -- Robin Sharma
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. -- James Surowiecki
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. -- Simon Baker
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. -- Donald Trump
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. -- Aravind Adiga
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again -- Lewis Carroll
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. -- David Harvey
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard. -- Simon Baker
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

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