Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Dalton's records carefully preserved for a century were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

John Dalton's records carefully preserved for a century were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

And unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was not just damaged but totally destroyed.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks the system is built on the power of the banks so it can be destroyed through the banks.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Goodness armed with power is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Written poetry is worth reading once and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature and poetry and all that is spiritual.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry painting and music are destroyed or flourish.

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Passion you see can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

All I know is it destroyed my family it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.