Top 187 Crumbling Quotes & Sayings

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

Would higher taxes and a crumbling economy help women succeed, either personally or professionally? I don't think so.

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.

Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

When your whole world feels like it's crumbling down, everything you thought you knew, it's really to be rebuilt again but much stronger.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

She was the rock in a world that was crumbling

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

Funding to replace crumbling infrastructure has always been hard to come by.

Nowadays so many things are happening all over the place. I'd sound really like a regressive babuji if I say stuff like the institution of marriage is crumbling.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

The long-term effects of privatising both rail and housing, aside from ensuring we live in a country of crumbling infrastructure (in contrast to mainland Europe), is one of diminished social and personal opportunities.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.

The information walls are completely crumbling.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

It was voters in the Rust Belt that cared about their roads being rebuilt, their highways, their bridges. They felt like the world was crumbling. So I started making ads that would show the bridge crumbling.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.