Top 247 Empires Quotes & Sayings

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.

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

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires. Empires want them only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

All great empires die from within.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

I have never been a person to build empires.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.