Quotes About Ancient Ruins

#1. Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.

Amitav Ghosh

#3. I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton

#5. Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Martin Heidegger

#6. Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

Samuel Rogers

#7. The shattered wall,
the broken tower
have a story to tell -
from the touchstones of ruins
and ancient texts
we make a pilgrimage.

from The Ruins

Michael Alexander

#8. The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. I've never made something I've regretted

Rod Humble

#10. Startups that succeed are those that manage to iterate enough times before running out of resources.

Ash Maurya

#11. Folks, if we could lose our salvation, we would.

Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#12. It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.

Tim Conway

#13. Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.

Mario Puzo

#14. A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

Samuel Johnson

#15. And above [the three of] them, Old Star and Old Mother rose into their appointed places and stared at each other across the starry ruins of their ancient broken marriage.

Stephen King

#16. If one is going to go traipsing around ancient giant ruins hunting for treasure, one should first make sure they are abandoned.

Julie Kagawa

#17. Looking for a great teacher who can tell you what will happen in the future? Ask the ancient ruins what will happen!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

John Webster