Towers Quotes - Page 20

• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Queens, Father, Son

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Twenties

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• We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Ignorance, Order

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• We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the Twin Towers fell. They dream of even larger calamities. They must be stopped. And that requires an intelligence system that finds them, before they harm us.

  Bill Frist

  Dream, Mean, Enemy

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• Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
  [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
  Regumque turres.]

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Steps

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• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Views, Numbers, House

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Rivers

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Sunshine

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Hands, Here I Am, Grace

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• Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Passion, Men, Order

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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

  Alice Meynell

  Clouds, Rome, Age

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Flower, Space

  1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.1, l.15-18.

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• Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mind, Records, Temples

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• Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
  Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

  Steve McConnell

  Beer, Hands, Feet

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

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• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Religion, Gestures

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• In mockery I have set
  A powerful emblem up,
  And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
  In mockery of a time
  Half dead at the top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Powerful, Symbolism, Half

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

  Joseph Parker

  Wish, Comfort, Defense

  Joseph Parker (1873). “Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas”, p.455

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• Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?

  Lynne Truss

  Taken, Thinking, Ivory

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• We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

  Vikram Sarabhai

  Ivory Tower, Looks, Scientist

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• I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

  Danny DeVito

  Funny, Sight, Looks

  "Danny DeVito: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2010.

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• The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Ideas, Practice, Way

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a
  learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but
  everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner,
  and it caused me to do the same with my job.

  Tom Seaver

  Jobs, Impact, Careers

  Tom Seaver, Martin Appel (1984). “Tom Seaver's all-time baseball greats”, Atheneum

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Reality, Ivory Tower, Age

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Bottles, Gleam, Liquor

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