Crumble Quotes

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. (Anthony Sampson)
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
We do all mistakes. No one's perfect. No one should be expected to be perfect, it's too much pressure and we would crumble. View quote
Jennifer Morrison
If we work upon marble, it will perish If we work upon brass, time will efface it If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust But if we work upon mens immoral minds And imbue them with high principles, With the just fear of God and love of their fellow man We engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, And which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. View quote
Daniel Webster
Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage. View quote
Philip José Farmer
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble. (Alan Perlis)
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. View quote
George Bancroft
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare-rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country? View quote
Walter de la Mare
No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies. View quote
Rick Riordan
I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. View quote
Robin McKinley
I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you. View quote
Shannon Hale
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? View quote
Ellen Glasgow
I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men? View quote
Maureen O'Hara
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble. View quote
Henry Kravis
You're really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. "What do you mean really cute?” "So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Oh dear and laughing, lost to me, Hidden in grey Eternity, I shall attain, with burning feet, To you and to the mercy-seat! The ages crumble down like dust, Dark roses, deviously thrust And scattered in sweet wine - but I, I shall lift up to you my cry, And kiss your wet lips presently Beneath the ever-living Tree. (Stephen Vincent Benét)
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write. View quote
Marguerite Duras
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job. View quote
Nigel Kennedy
I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream. View quote
Dylan Thomas
The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I wish again that I were someone else. But it is too late now, too late to change anything. I am old and alone and I'm dying a little more with each passing hour. I'm tired, more tired than I've ever been. View quote
Nicholas Sparks