Towers Quotes

448 Towers quotes by 353 unique authors

I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… — Charles Darwin
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one… — Gustave Eiffel
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New… — Alfred Kazin
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another… — Charles Dickens
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter… — Oscar Wilde
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed. — Thomas Gray
From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down. — Edgar Allan Poe
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees .… — Hilda Doolittle
It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest… — Neal Shusterman
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.… — Victor Hugo
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. — Herb Caen
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like… — William James
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent… — Thucydides
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the… — Robert Muller
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned… — Mervyn Peake
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. — Carl Jung
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is… — Hernando Cortes
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts. — Tara Brach
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the… — William E. Simon
Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men… — Karen Walker
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. — Marianne Moore

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