Rubble Quotes
56 quotes by 55 authors
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
— Rita Mae Brown
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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
— Winston Churchill
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The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity…
— James A. Baldwin
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For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the…
— John Bagot Glubb
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings…
— William L. Shirer
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What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a…
— George Clooney
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I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble…
— Art Spiegelman
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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
— Nadeem Aslam
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than…
— Prince Charles
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I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands…
— Stephen Colbert
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate…
— Rod Serling
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making…
— Terence McKenna
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God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream…
— Larry Crabb
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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 any…
— Liz Curtis Higgs
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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 composite,…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a…
— Karl Rove
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