Top 100 Quotes About Tearing Down
#1. By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.
John Ashcroft
#2. I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
Lou Reed
#3. (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
#4. Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.
Calvin Coolidge
#5. The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structure, regardless of what goal you may want to achieve.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#6. If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.
Kevin Costner
#7. It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
Adolf Hitler
#8. No-one ever built themselves up by tearing down another.
Brian Randleas
#9. But I am not sure what this self is. For the moment I seem to be busy tearing down what I was.
Anais Nin
#10. We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?
Pope Francis
#11. Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#12. Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position that we don't like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.
Jimmy Carter
#13. To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.
William J. Clinton
#14. So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
Prince Philip
#17. The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.
T.D. Jakes
#18. Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
Greg Graffin
#19. ...we tear down the places where birds live, and put up places where people live, or places where people work to earn the money to pay for the places they live. We don't ask the birds for permission, nor do they complain about it. To a bird there is no tearing down or putting up.
John Porcellino
#20. There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
Iyanla Vanzant
#21. I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.
Jonathan Lethem
#22. A Christian's duty is to win souls for Christ. It would seem to me that tearing down a church you disagree with is like shooting holes in someone else's overloaded lifeboat to prove it's not as safe as yours. (from Bullies, Wolves, Sheep and Sheepdogs)
Tom King
#23. And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.
Eminem
#24. In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.
Ken Schoolland
#25. During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#26. Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
Jules Verne
#28. Yo momma so poor that when I visited her house and tore down the cob webs, she screamed "Who's tearing down the drapes?
Various
#30. Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
Russell Simmons
#31. This world is mine as much as it is yours, and I don't have to eat shit and say thank you anymore just to be allowed in the club. I am tearing down this framework and building a new one, and I do not need your permission to do so.
Anonymous
#32. Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person ...
Ken Keyes Jr.
#33. Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule
#34. CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.
Dave Grohl
#35. This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em.
Rush Limbaugh
#36. In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in a good marriage, each person appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude and thus shows him the greatest faith he can bestow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#37. The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She relentlessly helps others by tearing down falsehoods about whatever enshrined "truths" enslave us.
Peter Boghossian
#38. Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.
A.G. Howard
#39. That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.
Napoleon Hill
#40. A healthy family builds up the weakest members while not tearing down the strong.
Philip Yancey
#41. What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.
Trent Reznor
#42. As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant of others, more open to listen, more prepared to understand, more inclined to build up instead of tearing down and you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#43. ...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.
Cindee Snider Re
#44. Only union with you gives joy.
The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
Rumi
#45. His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.
Michael Lewis
#47. Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock.
Junot Diaz
#48. My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.
Eric Schneiderman
#49. Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.
William J. Clinton
#50. Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.
Lysa TerKeurst
#51. Path down her cheek. How did she make him understand that his kindness was tearing her apart?
Katie Graykowski
#52. Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration ... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
Francis Bacon
#53. Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#54. If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it.
Dan Pearce
#55. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.
Natalie Angier
#56. Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#57. He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside
Tennessee Williams
#58. All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.
Ken Kesey
#59. My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.
Carson Kressley
#60. Never build yourself up by tearing another down.
Larry Winget
#61. You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them. Do they bring out the best in each other, or are they always gossiping, tearing others down? Keeping wounds alive?
Louise Penny
#62. He'd built a wall around his heart to protect it, and she was slowly brick by brick, smile by smile, laugh by laugh, kindness by kindness, tearing it down. Tomorrow he'd refortify it.
Tonight he simply wanted the haven she could provide.
Lorraine Heath
#63. He closed his eyes, and a single tear crawled down his cheek. I knew I was asking him to do the impossible, and it was tearing me apart that Ash was suffering. But at least I would make it right in the end. I'd promise him that much.
Julie Kagawa
#64. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
Ann Landers
#65. People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
Pam Houston
#66. Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
Sean Covey
#67. Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down.
Sputnik Monroe
#68. People are used to being stimulated. People are drunk on entertainment and when you're going out and seeing movies where 200 people are machine gunned down and vampires are tearing people's throats out, and I'm not saying that is bad or it should be censored, but people are drunk on stimuli.
Alex Jones
#69. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#70. You're telling me a shape-shifting demon just walked out onto Fifth Avenue and blended in with the crowd?" I asked. "Hailed a fucking cab after tearing everyone to pieces down here?
Nicholas Kaufmann
#71. Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.
Myles Munroe
#72. If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline's fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?
Kristen Reed
#73. Tearing a world down was a simple affair; the gravity of human nature tugged willingly. It was the building up afterward that proved complex. It was what to replace injustice with that very few gave thought to.
Hugh Howey
#74. You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down
Abraham Lincoln said it.
John Kasich
#75. I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.
Sandra Bullock
#76. As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.
Daniel Harvey Hill
#77. Leave tomorrow for the cowards. Today you must be fearless.
Tracey Ward
#78. Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#79. I believe the words parents speak to their children are of vital significance. They become either blessings or curses, depending on their content and connotations. They accompany you through your lifetime, caressing or pinching, building you up or tearing you down.
Adi Tsin Ben-Nun
#80. When we can recognize how unique and beautiful each person is as a reflection of God Himself, rather than tearing them down in our heart, we will then be more willing to humble ourselves and lift others up. We
Ramsey Coutta
#81. L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.
Kim Gordon
#82. What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it
down.
Patrick Ness
#83. ( ... ) she knew this: She was falling for this girl, this beautiful, beautiful girl, and she wanted to fall. She wanted to leap right now, arms spread wide, gravity pulling her down, the wind tearing at her hair. She didn't care if she crashed, as long as Amber crashed with her.
Malinda Lo
#84. Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
Betty White
#85. I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution
Aja Monet
#86. I laid the tree down on the cement and started tearing through its trunk, until it was in jagged pieces. The smell of pine was overwhelming, like the tree's heart was leaking out.
Ava Dellaira
#87. A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.
Jules Henry
#88. Fight it, put on your show little Luna. Because if the witch lets you go, I'll eat your kidneys like conversation hearts," War snarled and bit down hard on his victim's shoulder, tearing the skin and fascia.
Saranna DeWylde
#89. Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down
Tasha Turner
#90. A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them back from a subterfuge comma. Literally tearing the veil of blackness down and showing them the luminescence of light.
Laura Kreitzer
#91. You are luck our baby is coming down those stairs. Because if he wasn't, I would have you bent over this sink, tearing you apart to the point where you wouldn't even be able to walk tomorrow.
Toni Aleo
#92. Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up ...
Charles Dickens
#93. Unlike the women she'd known back at home, these women didn't thrive on gossip. They built each other up rather than tearing each other down.
Marie Force
#94. If he could have been reembodied, at that moment a black wind would have rushed through the Villa Fioretta, wrenching the shutters off and tearing the pictures down, or an earthquake cracked the floors, or the olivey hill above the villa erupted, showering hot choking ash.
Elizabeth Bowen
#95. Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart
Jewel
#96. There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.
Michael Shanks
#97. The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
Genghis Khan
#98. It is impossible, he had found, if you rule, to do only good, for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he could not care about every life, every dream, every population of every world.
Neil Gaiman
#99. for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he ... all pleasures available freely (but what we attain with no effort we cannot value),
Neil Gaiman
#100. The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown
Simon Hughes
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