Top 35 Crumbling Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Crumbling Quotes from famous people such as Adam Mansbach, Per Petterson, Tony Evers, George Emil Palade, Nicholas D’Agosto, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures

How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support – religion, family, ethnic solidarity – are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach
1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things happened – in 15 minutes, the world changed.
Per Petterson
Scott Walker has repeatedly failed to address our crumbling bridges and highways, which rank as some of the worst in the country, forcing communities to tax themselves even more to pay for basic road maintenance.
Tony Evers
For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom – to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago – to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
George Emil Palade
You know that thing when you’re not asleep but you’re not awake, and you can’t move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
Nicholas D’Agosto
We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.
Rashida Tlaib
The bottom line is that the federal government is an important partner in addressing issues like funding our public schools, fixing our crumbling roads and infrastructure, protecting our natural resources and ensuring that healthcare is affordable and protects people with pre-existing conditions.
Tony Evers
I am looking forward to partnering with the federal government, as well as the business leaders in our state, to address the serious challenges we face. From a budget crisis to crumbling infrastructure, we will get the job done right.
John Bel Edwards
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it’s entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
Christian Marclay
I’m so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I’m not.
Diana Rigg
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
Macklemore
‘Glee’ is very easy to clown because I feel like it’s just crumbling. ‘Smash!’ ‘Smash’ is the ultimate. I love it because I’m all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you’re not learning the dance moves.
Retta
We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways – we can’t have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.
Christine Pelosi
I guess there’s nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it’s satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.
Jason Bateman
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
Iain Sinclair
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.
Mark Kurlansky
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
Jenna Morasca
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do – they pay surveyors to take a look.
Christine Pelosi
I did not break up the Beatles. You can’t have it both ways. If you’re going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
Yoko Ono
Nowadays so many things are happening all over the place. I’d sound really like a regressive babuji if I say stuff like the institution of marriage is crumbling.
Alok Nath
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it’s growing or crumbling.
Ric Ocasek
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.
Lee Bermejo
I don’t want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.
David Malpass
The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it’s all together – white picket fence, nice house – but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down.
Jason Jones
Funding to replace crumbling infrastructure has always been hard to come by.
Ted Wheeler
In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn’t have a lot of money. He’d buy crumbling fixer-uppers, make repairs and sell them for a small profit. Then we’d move on. My early childhood image of him is standing on a ladder and sanding the front door.
John Densmore
‘The Crumbling of America’ should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
Rachel Sklar
When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton – only by me.
Donald Trump
We don’t have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!
Susan L. Taylor
The long-term effects of privatising both rail and housing, aside from ensuring we live in a country of crumbling infrastructure (in contrast to mainland Europe), is one of diminished social and personal opportunities.
Dawn Foster
In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marri

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real ‘war on women.’ Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.
Tim Huelskamp
Detroit’s industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O’Rourke
Would higher taxes and a crumbling economy help women succeed, either personally or professionally? I don’t think so.
Lara Trump
When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.
Christine and the Queens