Eddie Vedder

Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

American Musician

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

Haitian Statesman

Rupert Grint

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

English Actor

David Wong

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

American Writer

Bhumibol Adulyadej

If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?

Statesman

Prince Charles

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

English Royalty

Ben Rhodes

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

American Public Servant

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

British Explorer

Fiona Hill

The capital city of Grozny in Chechnya was reduced completely to rubble, and Putin thought this was worthwhile because it kept the state together.

Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

British Statesman

Often used to describe debris left after events like earthquakes or bombings.

Disaster Aftermath

Rubble is not just scattered material; its presence implies displacement from somewhere important.

Displaced Importance

The word conveys a strong visual image of destruction and disorder.

Visual Impact

In technical or geological contexts, it specifically refers to natural rock fragments.

Technical Use

Used to emphasize the roughness and irregularity of the fragments.

Descriptive Quality

Refers to waste left after planned demolitions, not just unexpected destruction.

Demolition Result

Implies an action to be taken—removing rubble is part of cleaning up.

Clearing Process

 only when she was deep in the rubble, because that's what the USAR team said they wanted. What we didn't know at the time was that the civil engineers would have loved, needed the data as we recorded the box beams, the serial numbers, the locations, as we went into the rubble.

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 would like to be able to more quickly go through and detect victims buried in rubble well this project finder began as a lot of projects do as science we invested in some technology that would be helpful for measuring the surface waves on the earth also for detecting

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 lay under the rubble for three and a half hours without rescue. Stateless. The guy who tried to help the stateless people his whole career. Like a refugee. Because he represents the U.N. If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

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 In some of the compounds that scientists found, first in the rubble left by a meteorite that disintegrated above northern Canada, and then in samples collected by a space craft from a passing comet's tail, were nothing less important than amino acids.

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 Alberto said can't lives let's try we've done this we've gone down the steps and we're skeletons and rubble and pottery and caches and everything and so there must be something down here so they move the triangular stone aside but then they

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 now under rubble. And so Amira can't go back there. But Amira also has no hope of resettlement to a third country, because that's a lottery ticket only available to less than one percent of the world's refugees. So Amira and her family

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 their chance to work to civilization to be part of a booming economy and they decided themselves to build an off-and-on rounds from rubble and garbage and not only that they also put a little station on the top of it for

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 But the coolest thing of all is that eensy-weensy creatures on a rubble pile around a totally average star in a totally average galaxy can win the battle to understand their world. Every dot in this video is a galaxy.

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 it's not our experience that makes our lives, it's what we do with it. Imagine a hurricane suddenly sweeps through your town and reduces every last thing to rubble. One man is traumatized for life.

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 But there are still chicks unaccounted for, somewhere amongst the rubble.