Best Towers Quotations
448 Towers quotes by 353 unique authors
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And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun,…
— Donna Leon
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I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September…
— Bernard Kerik
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,…
— John Milton
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I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If…
— Burton Raffel
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Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.
— Dillon Burroughs
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What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as…
— Stephen Charnock
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One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying…
— Zach Braff
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The king's name is a tower of strength.
— William Shakespeare
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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
— Ellen Raskin
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never…
— Alasdair Gray
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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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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After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on…
— Charles Perrault
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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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No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage…
— Michael Parkinson
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