Temples Quotes · Page 29

I was quite old school and religious, keeping all my fasts and would prefer to spend my time in temples.

— Supriya Pathak

Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see…

— Henry David Thoreau

But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into…

— John Muir

One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually…

— Richard Meltzer

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies,…

— Seneca the Younger

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like…

— Charles Spurgeon

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one…

— Ambrose Bierce

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You…

— Ansel Adams

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme…

— Camille Paglia

Granuaile looked terminally depressed when she emerged from the bathroom with raven hair and, as a result rather Goth by accident. She…

— Kevin Hearne

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire…

— Jasper Fforde

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be…

— Kevin Moffett

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple…

— Elie Wiesel

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not…

— John Milton

The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples,…

— Luca Pacioli

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the…

— Andre Malraux

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Therefore let the Saints be diligent in building the Temple, and all houses which they have been, or shall hereafter be, commanded…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been…

— Anatol Rapoport

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the…

— Anonymous

The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like…

— Rick Riordan

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their…

— Sigmund Freud