Quotes About Remnants

All of it dust now, all of their precious humanoid civilization ground to junk under glaciers or weathered away by wind and spray and rain and frozen ice - all of it. Only this pathetic maze-tomb left. So much for their humanity, or whatever they chose to call it, thought Unaha-Closp. Only their machines remained. But would any of the others learn? Would they see this for what it was, this frozen rockball? Would they, indeed!

He's scorched us, Ninka. We are just memories of his power.

We are the last flickering remnants of a once-mighty heritage, Val. We should keep that flame alive.

Taziel's clothes lay strewn around the floor of the darkened room, limp ghosts of his long body fashioned in fabric.

We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.

It was a museum of past meals.

You see, humans always leave something behind.

The faint odour of rotting cheese suggested that sandwiches had been lost in the trackless wastes of paper and never found again.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.

No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Historically, fallen civilizations left behind ruins that vanished into the landscape, only to be rediscovered thousands of years later, becoming almost mystical in nature. But what happens to the institutions and edifices of a civilization that doesn't fall, but evolves beyond its own embarrassment?

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park. And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.

these leftover memories

Before I arrived, who were the people living here? Only violets remain.

She tried to pray but her prayers felt far away, remnants of another woman's body.

We are alive, but what is left of us?

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

There were a number of spots on the backsplash as well, behind the oven, which might have easily been the remnants of a fat, juicy steak, but if they tested the blood Zoe was pretty sure they'd find human DNA. The spatters had been there about a week now. Neither she nor Chris had bothered to wipe them off—Zoe, because

There were a number of spots on the backsplash as well, behind the oven, which might have easily been the remnants of a fat, juicy steak, but

Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes.