Ruins Quotes

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

Politics ruins the character.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.