He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there…

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

— Malcolm X

“The future is shaped by young people foolish enough to believe they can topple a mountain. And yet, when we stand among the rubble,…

— Mitch Rowland

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has…

— Bono

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

— Nadeem Aslam

Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I grew up playing amid the rubble - a real-life adventure playground. We used to build dolls' houses out of bricks from the demolished…

— Angela Rippon

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed,…

— Markus Zusak

“I authorize an air strike that reduces my street to rubble; I fold Swansea Bay like an enormous omelette and scoff it all”

— Joe Dunthorne

“I’m not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don’t go building castles in the air. You’ll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.”

— Maureen Child

What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting…

— Julie Anne Peters

His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than…

— Liz Curtis Higgs

“It’s like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs.”

— Tom Perrotta

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are…

— Terence McKenna

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

— Robert Jordan