Towers Quotes
448 Towers quotes by 353 unique authors
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There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be…
— Gustave Eiffel
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
— Prince Charles
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Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
— Dirk Bogarde
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I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.
— Leon M. Lederman
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the…
— Shirley Hazzard
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower…
— Judith Wright
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Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me…
— Steven Morrissey
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Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
— Nelson Mandela
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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound…
— Laozi
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin?…
— Peter Kreeft
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
— Oscar Wilde
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World…
— Rosie O'Donnell
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I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when…
— Dan Rather
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Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police…
— Joan Cusack
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If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales…
— Bill Rancic
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For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are…
— John Mellencamp
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My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of…
— Roger Ebert
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I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!
— Randy Savage
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Even ivory towers need central heating.
— Breyten Breytenbach
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If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--…
— Paul Revere
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and…
— James Russell Lowell
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The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and…
— Osama bin Laden
Who Wrote These Towers Quotes
353 authors contributed a total of 448 Towers Quotes, led by these top contributors: