Ruins Quotes

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

We moralize among ruins.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.