America Quote by Buenaventura Durruti

It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to…

— Buenaventura Durruti

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization…

— John Cheever

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

— Henry David Thoreau

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are…

— K.P. Yohannan

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

— Red Skelton

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing…

— Alfred Jarry

We are like a building for building fall and then we rebuild and with every rebuild we build stronger finding where the weak spots…

— Anonymous

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a…

— Julie Burchill

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the…

— David Maraniss

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

— Caetano Veloso

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time…

— Majora Carter