Crumbled Quotes
59 quotes by 56 authors
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura…
— William S. Burroughs
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall…
— William Jacob Holland
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Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the…
— John Aldridge
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In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
— Walter Benjamin
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If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
— Swami Vivekananda
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And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and…
— Saddam Hussein
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Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's…
— John Donne
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The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.
— Paulo Coelho
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and…
— Bram Stoker
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled....
— Neil Gaiman
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Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks,…
— Harold Geneen
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Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop…
— David O. Selznick
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The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads…
— Yusuf Idris
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When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.
— Randy Travis
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
— George Herbert
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The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Crumbled Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 59 Crumbled Quotes, led by these top contributors: