Top 55 Towers Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Towers Quotes from famous people such as Monica Johnson, Anand Gopal, Rumi, Robert Webb, Philippe Petit, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city – the most unique city in the world, so when I moved to Virginia and later to Maryland, it meant even more.
Monica Johnson
I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.
Anand Gopal
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
Rumi
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with ‘Fawlty Towers.’ It’s easy to forget.
Robert Webb
Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.
Philippe Petit
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
Hernan Cortes
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.
Michael Connelly
America’s liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
Ben Shapiro
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
Michael Mandelbaum
I remember… seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: ‘It’s a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.’
Robert Mueller
Everything on ‘Sharknado’ somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren’t working.
Cassie Scerbo
That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a bond that has proven deeper and more enduring – for better or worse, through sickness and health – than the one I had with my now ex-husband.
Mona Eltahawy
I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This was, for me, a kind of religious experience.
Santiago Calatrava
I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like ‘Fawlty Towers.’
Russell Brand
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark’s Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.
Cory Booker
I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, ‘Oh.’ I didn’t think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.
Bradley Walsh
I love Monty Python, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers. I’m a huge fan of British comedy.
Isla Fisher
I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my job at a law firm in Manhattan and come back to the U.K.
Naomi Alderman
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Charles Perrault
I remember feeling like we at WBC were a persecuted minority, triumphant in the face of evil people ‘worshipping the dead’ as we picketed funerals or rejoiced at the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Megan Phelps-Roper
The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people’s consciousness.
John Cusack
I hardly ever watch TV and when I do it’s sports. I’ll occasionally stick on some old episode of ‘Fawlty Towers’ or something.
Mats Wilander
I’ve done work wearing full cold-weather gear hanging off of scientific towers in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Having to actually do small, delicate tasks on scientific equipment while you have no dexterity or tactile feedback is something that’s very transferrable.
Christina Koch
Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.
Manoj Tiwari
When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, ‘Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?’ Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.
Bjarke Ingels
Hundreds a year are killed inspecting power lines, inspecting gas lines and cellphone towers. They fall. There are helicopter crashes. We can eliminate all that with autonomous drones and artificial intelligence.
Brian Krzanich
The Tower of David is important for Israel’s heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
Yair Lapid
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes
‘The Practical Heart’ was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
Allan Gurganus
I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
Douglas Coupland
Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that become symbols of power and capitalism. We don’t talk about how emotions and nature can be connected.
Ma Yansong
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims – in the towers, in the planes – and all that loss.
Kiefer Sutherland
The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers.
Naomi Klein
Most of ‘Let the Great World Spin’ is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel’s multiple protagonists.
Susan Barker
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
John Eldredge
I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.
Chris Benz
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli
There’s something amazing about ‘Fawlty Towers’ and ‘The Office’ only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don’t need to do more than two or three.
Johnny Flynn
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Christopher Marlowe
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant
It’s a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
Jodi Picoult
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
Peter Landesman
In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.
Bill Rancic
Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down – they were still there, although no one was in them.
Joan Cusack
As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.
Colin Mochrie
As for my all-time sporting hero? There is one who towers above all. I first knew him when he was called Cassius Clay but it was when he changed his name to Muhammad Ali that I became mesmerised by him.
Jim Kerr
When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don’t think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.
Dennis Farina
‘Fawlty Towers’ was a huge influence on me. I mean, it was so slapstick, too. ‘Are You Being Served?’ was on 15 times a day, it seemed like, and I loved it.
Jonathan Krisel
You’ve got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump’s very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
Naomi Klein
Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.
David Olusoga
I tried to convince those guys at the Bullets in the ’95-’96 season that they could try to beat the mighty London Towers, who won everything the year before. I got out of bed every day with the mindset of getting the team to Wembley for the play-off final and to win the championship.
Nick Nurse