Crumbling Quotes

• 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.

  Lionel Blue

  Birthday, Mother, Age

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  Ed Miliband

  School, Years, Shining

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• 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.

  Ric Ocasek

  Country, Song, Writing

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

  Groucho Marx

  Drinking, Inspiration, Men

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• …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

  John Dryden

  Sky, Lasts, Hours

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) 'Grand Chorus'

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• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

  Danica McKellar

  Self Esteem, Silly, Math

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

  Tyson Chandler

  Thinking, Games, World

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• For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ivy, Decay, Halls

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.277

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• I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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

  J. K. Bharavi

  Friendship, Fall, Shade

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• 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.

  Abbi Glines

  Dream, Heart, Rocks

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!

  Denis Diderot

  Fall, Rocks, Dust

  "Salon of 1767". Book by Denis Diderot, 1798.

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• The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Regret, Decision, Trying

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• I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind.

  W. G. Sebald

  Wall, Iron, Broken

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• It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Jigsaw Puzzles, Color

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2007.

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• The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Lying, Moving

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• 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!

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Gratitude, Wall, Soul

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• 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.

  Marcus Garvey

  Dust, Body, Individual

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.

  Billy Graham

  Our World, Years, Needs

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 10, 2014

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Together, Pieces

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Village, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Sandra Cisneros

  Doors, Bricks, Swollen

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.26, Vintage

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dog, Light, Earth

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