Shrines Quotes

78 Shrines quotes by 70 unique authors

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. — Nicholson Baker
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft… — Aravind Adiga
Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine. — Bob Seger
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children… — Sathya Sai Baba
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of… — Plotinus
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier
To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm… — Jomo Kenyatta
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine… — Ashley Greene
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of… — Thomas Jefferson
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and… — John Irving
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine — Alfred de Musset
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to… — Rabindranath Tagore
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst. — Margaret Atwood
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or… — Oscar Wilde
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the… — Steve Almond
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. — Hayao Miyazaki
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are… — Ivo Andric
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city… — Bede Griffiths
Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy… — Rick Riordan
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry — Victor Hugo
I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege… — Helen Thomas

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