Towers Quotes · Page 2

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

— Anonymous

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

— Dillon Burroughs

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Great towers take time to construct.

— Herman Melville

I know Duke's magnolia-carpeted campus and gray, gothic towers.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

— Lord Byron

A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

— John Cleese

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

— Ray Bradbury

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I…

— Colin Hanks

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

— Kiefer Sutherland

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up…

— Maya Angelou

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

— Don DeLillo

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

— Faramir

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

— Robert Fabyan

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower…

— Lalla Ward

[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole…

— Megan Chance

I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off…

— Robert Mueller

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel…

— Gustave Eiffel

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them…

— John Major

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn…

— Paul Goodman

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or…

— Peter Kreeft

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming…

— Aaron Scharf

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh…

— Selma Lagerlöf

I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus,…

— Gilbert Gottfried

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He…

— William James

I am with you. I'm not going anywhere." "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of…

— Cassandra Clare

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…

— W. Eugene Smith

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

— Nick Flynn

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

— Peter May

you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-" "Going to the Eiffel Tower?

— Cassandra Clare

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

— Marianne Moore

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend…

— Jeff Foxworthy

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water…

— John F. Kennedy

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

— Anais Nin

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

— W. H. Auden