And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves — John Mallory Asher Copy Share Image
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“These spires above my house are doves, lifted by grace above the earth's eruption.” — Jay Wright Copy Share Image
San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires;… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart… — Winifred Mary Letts Copy Share Image
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“thrusting steel spires of Canary Wharf, the domed O2 Arena, then Tower Bridge and, finally, the London Eye and Westminster. The” — Paul Pilkington Copy Share Image
I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things that we daily see, We plant the spire that out-towers… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“For many years there have been rumours of mind control experiments. in the United States. In the early 1970s, the first of… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. — John Corry Copy Share Image
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening... — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?" "Without me, you do not have the power," Hera… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest… — Damon Thayer Copy Share Image
