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Tower Quotes by John Betjeman
- 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…
- I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
More Tower Quotes
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. — Tyra Banks
- I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row… — Drew Barrymore
- In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large… — Nolan Bushnell
- Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. — Dante Alighieri
- I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. — Cher
- Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth… — Judah Halevi
- Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to… — James Keller
- But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their… — Samuel Rutherford
- Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower… — Charles Caleb Colton