- As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for – and it must be said again – the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.~ Salvatore Quasimodo
- But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.~ The Holy Bible
- Gifts break through stone walls.~ Author Unknown
- How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.~ John Gay
- It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.~ Anais Nin
- I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.~ Angelina Jolie
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.~ Jonathan Swift
- Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. ~ Solon
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.~ R. D. Laing
- Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.~ Isadora Duncan
- Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.~ Irish Proverb
- No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl’s heart. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Patience can break through iron doors.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
- People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about – the economy, education and health care.~ Tom Daschle
- Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.~ Georg Simmel
- There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.~ Cyril Connolly
- The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything — gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness — rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.~ Antonin Artaud
- Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around – it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.~ Martin Fleischmann
- What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.~ Vernon Howard
- You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.~ Les Brown
- You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg
