Towers

Famous quotes containing the word towers:

“Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“Even great towers start at ground level.”
—Chinese proverb.