David Maraniss Quotes

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.