Quotes About Demolition

For I did not yet understand fame, this public demolition of something still forming, onto whose construction site the crowd breaks in, scattering its stones.

To the destruction of what is.

As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.

This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council," the voice continued. "As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.

What's that?" he yelped. "Don't worry," said Ford, "they haven't started yet." "Thank God for that," said Arthur, and relaxed. "It's probably just your house being knocked down

My God, they are! They're knocking my house down. What the hell am I doing in the pub, Ford?" "It hardly makes any difference at this stage," said Ford, "let them have their fun.

There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

I was most upset to hear of its destruction.

It hadn't properly registered yet with Arthur that the council wanted to knock it down and build a bypass instead.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

It isn't always easy to stay within budget when committing to a renovation, but one place you can cut costs is on the demolition.

I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

The building was one of seventeen on various lists for demolition, some of which had been offered to the city—in lieu of tax breaks—for fire training.

Bebe Kincaid, a plump, gray-haired woman who was the most unlikely employee of his company, SEAL Demolition and Salvage.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

He had orders to demolish the whole ghetto, and he and his men were doing so, when he flew over the courtyard. And guess what? The spotlight on his plane shone down and he saw…" Papa pauses. We all lean in to hear more. "He saw our yellow stars!

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.

Cuando los israelíes no construían casas en suelo palestino, se dedicaban a demoler casas palestinas. Entre la firma del acuerdo de Oslo en 1993 y marzo de 1998, los bulldozers israelíes echaron abajo 629 casas palestinas, 535 en Cisjordania y 94 en Jerusalén, más de una tercera parte bajo un gobierno laborista israelí, y el resto bajo el mandato de Likud.

Palestinians also have a right not to have their homes demolished because an occupying power refuses to grant them a permit. Palestinian children should not be shot at or arrested in the middle of the night and interrogated by the Israeli military while terrified and isolated.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

No longer to be compelled to betray one's own feelings and senses, no longer to allow oneself to be deflected from the truth of facts by ideologies of any kind, is already to lend a hand in the demolition of the inhuman, destructive wall of silence—the wall that we were forced to respect as children and which has again and again resulted in fascist behavior.

The forecast was cloudy with extended periods of consciousness, followed by a stitch in my side and a sense of impending doom swelling to a symphony of demolition

The demolition of a Temple is possible at any time, as it cannot walk away from its place.