Quotes About Being Torn Down

#1. Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.

Pete Townshend

#2. It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Anthony Hamilton

#3. What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation.

Anne Lamott

#4. You can't tell from looking if it's being built up or torn down, Dunn thought. Can't tell creation from destruction at a distance.

Scott Cawthon

#5. Without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike

#6. Savasana - corpse pose - is the hardest pose of all. You would think, 'What could be hard about lying on the floor?' But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.

Jennifer Weiner

#7. A country song is a song about life.

Alan Jackson

#8. We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Louis Kronenberger

#9. I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#10. Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#11. Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

Timothy Keller

#12. The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#13. I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Sharon Horgan

#14. I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

Bernie Worrell

#15. In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being ... It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

James H. Cone

#16. When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Russell Brand

#17. Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Aldous Huxley

#18. She wanted to tell him that she understood him now, in a way she'd never understood anyone before. Because she was with him. It wasn't even like being in the web; it was much closer than that, much deeper. He'd torn down all the barriers and put his soul into her hands.

L.J.Smith