Tower Quotes
328 quotes by 284 authors
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its…
— James Russell Lowell
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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand…
— Scott Cunningham
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A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and…
— Heber C. Kimball
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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything…
— Roseline Filion
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If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch…
— Jack Handey
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Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by…
— Marshall McLuhan
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
— Alexander Smith
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Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped…
— John Betjeman
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's…
— Adam Sedgwick
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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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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But,…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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Hawai‘i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart…
— Kirk Caldwell
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I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible…
— Peter Greenaway
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I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look…
— Danny DeVito
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Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
— Maya Angelou
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Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look up’ at Sophiatown,…
— Trevor Huddleston
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From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
— Frederick Buechner
Who Wrote These Tower Quotes
284 authors contributed a total of 328 Tower Quotes, led by these top contributors: