Rubble Quotes
56 Rubble quotes by 55 unique authors
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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the…
— Alan Jackson
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
— Alan Perlis
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Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to…
— Martin Caidin
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days…
— Bear Grylls
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the…
— Austin Grossman
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Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected…
— Markus Zusak
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Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking…
— Cindy Gerard
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
— William Goldman
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On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved…
— Markus Zusak
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The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching…
— Barry Hannah
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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to…
— Mary Oliver
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Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world.…
— Alan Moore
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So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What…
— Stephenie Meyer
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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected…
— Unknown Author
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Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my…
— Lauren Oliver
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What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on…
— Julie Anne Peters
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a…
— James A. Forbes
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I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were…
— Chelsea Peretti
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My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair…
— John Updike
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England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke,…
— Alexander Cockburn
Who Wrote These Rubble Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 56 Rubble Quotes, led by these top contributors: