“Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There are two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand instinctively that the story of The Flood… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“The New Tower of Babel and its fellow houses stretched their somber heights high above the cathedral spire, that the young girls… — Thea von Harbou Copy Share Image
“Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The Tower of Babel"... The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of… — Carol McCleary Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING QUITE BEAUTIFUL about this new thing with Betsy. She was taking me somewhere. I’d known enough older guys… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. The guy who built the Tower of Babel was the first artist.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“Race instinct, sense of nationality, enmity, and hatred, these are divisive forces between peoples. This is an astonishing punishment and a terrible… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“We working scientists increasingly find ourselves living in a kind of Tower of Babel, where it’s harder and harder to stay abreast… — Peter Doherty Copy Share Image
There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the very large department store should not be viewed as a sinful undertaking, as, for example, the Tower of Babel. It… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image