Tower Collapsed

Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or collapsed:

“The tower said, “One!”
And then a steeple.
They spoke to themselves....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“William James once said: “Progress is a terrible thing.” It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knows but that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)