Wreckage Quotes

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

For five days, 10,000 men worked hard with a will in that work of destruction with axes, crowbars, sledges, clawbars and fire, and I have no hesitation in pronouncing the work well done. Meridian, with its depots, storehouses, arsenal, hospitals, offices, hotels and cantonments, no longer exists.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

… a crippled, broken world

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

The wrecking crew

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.