“We moralise among ruins.”

“And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow to be loving children of the Most High.”

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

“Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.”

“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”

“Love among the ruins… I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“Are we ruining boobs for you?”

“We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.”

“That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.”

“If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go”