Towers Quotes
448 Towers quotes by 353 unique authors
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain
— Robert Jordan
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Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to…
— Robert Jordan
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People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the…
— Franz Kafka
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No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities…
— Cassandra Clare
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For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was…
— Richard Siken
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The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and…
— George R. R. Martin
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If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container…
— Rebecca Stead
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Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call…
— Cassandra Clare
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an…
— Alan Lightman
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Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died,…
— Howard Nemerov
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Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
— Blaise Pascal
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As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme…
— Ward Churchill
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I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
— Sarah McLachlan
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Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character…
— Michael Josephson
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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above…
— Alfred Noyes
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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what…
— Mark Twain
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If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the…
— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
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On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to…
— Bobby Ghosh
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If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research…
— Jimmy Breslin
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I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
— Douglas Coupland
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Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city - the most unique city in…
— Monica Johnson
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In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.
— Bill Rancic
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People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious…
— David Blunkett
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Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become…
— Philippe Petit
Who Wrote These Towers Quotes
353 authors contributed a total of 448 Towers Quotes, led by these top contributors: