Edifices Quote by Victor Hugo

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

— Victor Hugo

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“That was the age of great men, doing what was right.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“An hour may destroy what an age was building.”

— Jordan Hoechlin

“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“they saw that the great mountains had marched down very near to them.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

— Tom Perrotta

“Those mountains had been there since before I was born, and they'd still be there when I was gone. They'd stayed standing through every…

— Joseph Knox

“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the…

— Evelyn Waugh

“The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism,…

— Chris Elliott

“Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.”

— Thomas D. Isern

“In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere,”

— L.M. Montgomery