Quotes About Crumbling

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

Fruitcake really is the queen of cakes!' she insists as she passes a thick, crumbling slice. 'There is just nothing better — nothing!' Tasting it, you have to agree. The crude jokes about fruitcake seem silly and unfounded as its moist richness blooms on the tongue, stirring both memories of Christmases past and anticipation of those to come.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

He was now nothing but a ruin, but a splendid one; grander than a ruin, he had the romantic beauty of a rock beaten by a tempest. Scourged from every side by the waves of suffering, by rage at his suffering, his face, slowly crumbling like a block of granite almost submerged by the towering seas, retained the style, the suavity I had always admired.

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

Lord of the seven winds, what a smile! He could pull down the walls of a city with that smile. And I, like that walls of puerta de Tierra, could feel myself crumbling under its dazzling sparkle.

any society or government that relies too heavily on technology will find itself perched perilously on a crumbling precipice over the valley of death and destruction.