Tower Quotes

... a caricature of Mr. Military Industrial Complex.

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.

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

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

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

I decided, "Well, I'll be a forest ranger!" Because I thought, "I'll get to go out in the woods, I'll be in the forest, and I can sit in a tower and watch for forest fires and play my guitar. That's what I want to do!" Well, I was an idiot, of course.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

Where is this godly tower of Commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshadow Kings and be another Rome in the West?

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

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.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

If they chased every man or woman out of this town who has shacked up with somebody else or got drunk, there wouldn't be any government left in Washington.

Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

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

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!