Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“We’ll start on the ruins when you come back.” “Looks like a big job.” “Those are the most important.”

— Valerie Dunsmore

“That’s what I love about people. They have dreams and grand ambitions, and they start building towards them, even though they know they won’t…

— Dan Abnett

“His eyes flew back at me and I could see whole civilizations, cities that he'd built and cherished and planned for, like the model…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Just the sounds of an old building settling, I tell myself . . . but I wonder.”

— Stephen King

“You keep talking about ruining something. Why worry about that? We've been ruined for a long time. I'm good in the ruins; it's my…

— Peter Craig

“The veneer of civilization is like that on the kitchen counter - very thin.”

— Malcolm Watts

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“If God's masons built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to destroy them. But instead of walls all I see is backdrops, sets.…

— Milan Kundera

“The world wasn't built in a day. It took a long time to get this far and it still isn't finished. It never will…

— Anonymous

“It’s like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs.”

— Tom Perrotta

“The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.”

— René Descartes

“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.”

— George Eliot