Palaces Quotes

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!