Shrines Quotes
78 quotes by 70 authors
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator…
— Walter Russell
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Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very…
— Rajneesh
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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's…
— Norman Cousins
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year…
— Barack Obama
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most…
— Montgomery Schuyler
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
— Charles Buck
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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more…
— Paul Morphy
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Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written…
— Thurgood Marshall
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For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains…
— Merlin Stone
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I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
— Edwin Markham
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not…
— Kabir
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If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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