I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well
Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.
As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?
In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.
