Towers Quotes

• Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Wind, May

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• Great towers take time to construct.

  Herman Melville

  Patience, Persistence, Take Time

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

  Dillon Burroughs

  May, Problem

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• Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

  Dante Alighieri

  Humor, Commitment, Blow

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Divine Comedy: Top Classic Poetry”, p.233, 谷月社

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• Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Men, Sight

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.282, Penguin

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• A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Mind, Sitting

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.406, Wordsworth Editions

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Clouds, Wish

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• From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Looks, Proud

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems”, p.192, Rockport Pub

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• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

  Horace

  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

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• From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Perspective, House

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• Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Pride, Feet

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

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• Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Decision, Temptation

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• A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  New Day, Shining, Sun

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Cities, Brave

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• Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Umpires, May, Social

  Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black

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• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Optimistic, Fighting

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• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

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• 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.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Rain, Swans, Fog

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• Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

  Graham Greene

  Voice, Innocence, Cry

  Graham Greene (2010). “The Quiet American”, p.110, Random House

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• A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Night, Blood, Red

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• A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, Should Have

  John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”, p.164, Da Capo Press

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• And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Want, Sometimes, Frodo

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

  Francois Gautier

  Inspirational, Reality, Sea

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