Crumbling Quotes

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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 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.

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

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

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

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

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

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

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

The information walls are completely crumbling.

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

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!

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

She was the rock in a world that was crumbling

We don't need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.

I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.