Towers Quotes - Page 4

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

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

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

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.]