Top 100 Crumble Quotes
#1. Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks ... How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you; but can be a reflection of who they are.
Steve Maraboli
#2. It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.
Steve Jobs
#3. I wanted to rip her from her gilded cage and force the world onto her just to watch her crumble. Misery loves company, and I was nothing if not lonely.- Kaden
Teresa Mummert
#4. We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now ... but it will grow again ... like the trees.
Chief Joseph
#5. The weight of her expectations crumble me. I've always done the right thing. She expects me to make good choices but I don't even know what good choices look like...
S.M. Parker
#6. What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.
Stieg Larsson
#7. If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. Ben looked up, and the foundations of his life began to crumble.
K.J. Charles
#9. Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
Will Durant
#10. I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
Gordon Strachan
#11. They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
Ellen Hopkins
#12. From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.
Louis Kronenberger
#13. I break off the stale heel of my bread, crumble it in my palm, and then toss it onto the bench next to my friend. If birds had eyebrows, I'd swear it was raising them at me. Spirits bless you, you arrogant little thing. I suppose I wouldn't eat it if I didn't have to, either. Good day, Sir Bird.
Kiersten White
#14. Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.
Shakira
#15. One neither of us could bear. Life sometimes puts so much weight on our shoulders we crumble, bends us so far we break.
A.L. Jackson
#16. Be that as it may, but even the toughest cookies can crumble.
Mario Saincic
#17. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#18. As usual, when she has her Kindle in her hand, the world could crumble around her and she wouldn't have a clue.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#20. The room fell silent. I frankly didn't know what I was going to do to help Eduardo, but I had the sense that he was right- no one else could help him, and without help, all that he'd done would crumble.
Plus, I like being called his only hope. I felt like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Tod Goldberg
#21. He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
Gustave Flaubert
#22. If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.
Robert Liparulo
#23. There is a time in each of our lives when we are hurled into the terrible understanding that bedrock can crumble in the blink of an eye.
Shannon Polson
#24. I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.
Karl Rove
#25. No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:
My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
Isaac Watts
#26. The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.
Billy Graham
#27. Gabril's voice was strong and sure. I believe in you, and I've fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight.
C.J. Redwine
#28. A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.
Elizabeth Kenny
#29. I looked forward to seeing it restored, not just for Grayson's sake, but for the sake of beauty itself. A place like this shouldn't be allowed to crumble to ruin.
Mia Sheridan
#30. Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
Anthony Sampson
#31. I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.
Lincoln Michel
#32. And when I feel
the masks beneath
crumble and fade with
time I build new ones
to replace the old.
"Masks"- Sins Within
Shay Leigh
#33. Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.
Philip Jose Farmer
#34. Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.
Frank Miller
#35. Life is much the same when it's going well
resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
Mary Oliver
#36. I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
Peter Landesman
#37. Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.
Bob Dylan
#38. The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
R.C. Sproul
#39. The walls he's built around himself will crumble, and some really diabolical developments will push him toward the answers he fears.
Scott Allie
#40. You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.
Ken Follett
#41. Ten years was not enough. Stone should
not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly - not with so few inhabitants, most of whom were incapacitated. It was as if Elantris were intent on dying, a city committing suicide.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
Paul Simon
#43. If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.
Ben E. King
#44. Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.
Ann Druyan
#45. Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
Dorothea Lange
#46. I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
Alberto Manguel
#48. Rocks crumble, make new forms,
oceans move the continents,
mountains rise up and down like ghosts
yet all is natural, all is change.
Anne Sexton
#50. All this time Lock and I had managed to be civil to one another. No drama, all efficiency. But look him in the eyes? No, I couldn't do that. That would cut me wide open, and there would be blood. Lots of blood. I'd crumble into a heap on the floor then beg him to collect the pieces.
Cat Porter
#51. My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even. When something improved, something else had to crumble.
Rebecca Donovan
#52. Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.
Yasmin Mogahed
#53. Genet suggested that colonialism would crumble from the weight of its ignorance, its arrogance and greed, and that the oppressed would take over the positions of their former masters. They would be no better, no more courageous and no more merciful. I
Maya Angelou
#54. Anything we create ourselves is not meant to carry the weight of our strongest desires and dreams. Anything we put our hope in, short of the Creator himself, will either crumble or fall short of the joy that God intended for us to have in him.
David Boudia
#55. The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
Anthony Foxx
#56. I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.
Shannon Hale
#57. Land lied to the feet, and to the soul. You stand, it whispered, upon unchanging ground. You build upon certainty, and your foundations will never crumble. Ms.
Max Gladstone
#58. Our castle would crumble before us but that doesn't mean it can't be rebuilt, rebuilt for real, this time without the errors and a little more caution.
Chirag Tulsiani
#59. For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.
Stant Litore
#60. In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive? I dont know the answer better than they did. Love simply is where it is.
Stephenie Meyer
#61. hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!
Bram Stoker
#62. But you are never the same once you have acquired the knowledge that there is no self that will not crumble. We are told to learn self-reliance, but it's tricky if you have no self on which to rely.
Andrew Solomon
#63. You're really cute, Midori," I corrected myself.
"What do you mean really cute?"
"So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
Haruki Murakami
#64. And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.
Pablo Neruda
#65. Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
John C. Maxwell
#66. I thought it was a novel."
"It is."
"What's it about??"
"You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog."
"This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said.
"Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.
Marcel Theroux
#67. I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.
Alexandra Roach
#68. Garbage Is, always. We will die, civilization will crumble, life as we know it will cease to exist, but trash will endure, and there it was on the street, our ceaselessly erected, ceaselessly broken cenotaphs to ephemera and disconnection and unquenchable want.
Robin Nagle
#69. The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.
Marguerite Duras
#70. I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#71. You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.
Michael Palmer
#72. I'll be strong for you Syn, if you need it. You don't always have to be the strong one, I'll be
your glue if you want to crumble, I'll hold you together,.
Amelia Hutchins
#73. My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.
Kyo
#74. My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk.
Tom Hiddleston
#75. Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.
Vempati Chinna Satyam
#76. This world ye speak of, Akira, is built upon survival. The strong conquer and live, while the weak crumble and die.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#77. Love is the
ecstasy when the walls between two people crumble down, when two lives meet, when two lives
unite.
Osho
#78. God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. 2 So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. 3 Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!
Anonymous
#79. If faith is the first step or principle of the gospel and is eliminated, what happens to the gospel plan? The very foundation will crumble. I submit that there is a divine reason why all things cannot be proven by concrete evidence. ("Faith - The First Step," Ensign, May 1975, 37)
Howard W. Hunter
#80. Oh, how the pillars of lust can crumble under the weight of stupidity.
Christopher Moore
#81. He turned around and I felt the shards of my broken heart crumble to dust.
Jenna Evans Welch
#82. I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.
Terry Brooks
#83. If the crookies don't crumble, you don't try other pastries
Bayode Ojo
#84. It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Jessi Kirby
#85. Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#86. Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
Stieg Larsson
#87. Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The peaks and green valleys, the lakes set at the foot of mountains like offerings. Beautiful and doomed and thus terrible.
Ron Currie Jr.
#88. I have tried to fight the impulse, the attraction, but my defenses crumble every time I see him. Since my divorce from Hank I'm practically love-starved.
Martha Lemasters
#89. But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?
Walter De La Mare
#90. An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ...
Sarah Moore Grimke
#91. After one year all that will remain of the car is a vague outline. Trees, stop signs, people, and books grow old, crumble and disappear inside our habits.
Michael W. Clune
#92. I felt the protective dam I'd built around my heart began to crumble. I turned my eyes back to him and felt the love finally start to trickle out through the fissures. And hoped that one day it would become a torrent.
Lucinda Riley
#93. If you cannot reach a state of utter oneness with each other, how do you expect to solve anything? Separate the world will crumble; together the world will thrive.
Jennifer Ott
#94. A lot can happen in a heartbeat though. Even a really fast one. Lives crumble in a heartbeat. Promises are lost in a heartbeat.
Willow Madison
#95. Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.
Adam Gidwitz
#96. The charred smell came, he assumed, from the pages themselves, burning away invisibly as they had for years in the Impetus vault in New York. Eventually they would crumble and be lost to the world, if they weren't thrown away first. For today, though, they were his to inhale and get lost in.
Jonathan Galassi
#97. In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.
Siraj Wahhaj
#98. They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat
Sammy Nelson
#99. If the sun refused to shine,
I'd still be loving you.
If mountains crumble to the sea,
there will still be you and me.
Led Zeppelin
#100. My heart had stopped as my world spun around me. I felt all the walls that had begun to crack and crumble slam right back into place as I looked into the eyes of the monster I knew was there all along.
Alicia Deters
