Top 306 Towers Quotes & Sayings

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and...its appeal to men of all lands and times.

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.

I love Monty Python, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

When I was in my late teens, I discovered 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Monty Python,' and they still make me laugh.

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

Great towers take time to construct.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

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.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on 'Ground Zero' is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.'

Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why would you want to?" Aline, Isabelle thought, did not have much imagination. She herself could think of lots of reasons why someone might want to climb the demon towers, if only to spit gum down on passerbys below.

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.

Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.

I hardly ever watch TV and when I do it's sports. I'll occasionally stick on some old episode of 'Fawlty Towers' or something.

In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.

Martello towers are great places to work in.

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.