Ruins Quotes

Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation's history. The disruption of our oil supply was the final straw. It wrecked the economy. Japan is in ruins; millions are out of work. We must repair the damage and ensure it never happens again. - Atsuko Abe

You know that feeling you get on a Sunday? When you just have the whole day to yourself, and it's been great, but then you remember you have to go to school the next day, and it ruins the whole rest of the night. I have to go home tomorrow, and I just have that feeling. It's like Sunday night. - Peyton Sawyer

You don't want it to be there... If it's there at 11, it's there at 10. And if it's there at 10, it ruins your alibi, because you're in the Bronco and not at home. - Daniel Petrocelli

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. - Kay Boyle

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost... - Oscar Wilde

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. - Groucho Marx

With leadership comes some wonderful perks. ... But that good stuff ruins more leaders than anything I've seen in my life. Without character, folks, we can't lead. - Pat Williams

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. - Janet Flanner

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. - Lytton Strachey

When the (Phoenix) steel company closed 30 years ago, no one realized in 10 years, we would all be jobless and our downtown would be in ruins. - Manny DeMutis