Ruined City Quotes

#1. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!

Khushwant Singh

#2. Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart and rebuild a weakened will.

Eric Greitens

#3. Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness.

G.S. Jennsen

#4. If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

Daniel Gillies

#5. San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

Jim Goad

#6. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about

Karin Slaughter

#7. And since the gospel does not come as a disembodied message, but as the message of a community which claims to live by it and which invites others to adhere to it, the community's life must be so ordered that it "makes sense" to those who are so invited.

Lesslie Newbigin

#8. I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.

Colson Whitehead

#9. Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#11. Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

Bob Proctor

#12. I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

A.F. Stewart

#13. Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place.

Kate Atkinson

#14. I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.

Craig Lancaster

#15. I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things

Drake

#16. Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Cecelia Ahern

#17. Be like a flower, give hope to the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

Brian Bell

#19. But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.

Carlos Fuentes

#20. Sometimes I feel the need of an avalanche within me.

Mark Lawrence

#21. If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.

Penelope Fitzgerald