Quotes About Fallen Empires

#1. fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.

Bobby Adair

#2. Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#3. My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

Roland Smith

#4. There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

Harry J. Anslinger

#5. Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Jim Capaldi

#6. Many frustrated people try to live their lives as others have defined them.

Henry Cloud

#7. And maybe, just maybe, the ten hours of hot summer wind blowing past my face would dry the tears of pride which were beginning to roll down my cheeks.

Scott Hildreth

#8. You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

William Shakespeare

#9. In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

John Boyd Orr

#10. No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. It's okay, mummy's in there lying on the floor. She'll be alright in an hour or so.

Margaret Atwood

#12. Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

#13. The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Suzy Menkes

#14. As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Sarah Zettel

#15. We scientists are clever - too clever - are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

Richard P. Feynman

#16. For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory ...

Zachary Taylor