Spires Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." — William Wordsworth
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever… — Henry Ward Beecher
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. — Barack Obama
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the… — Charles Dickens
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between… — J. G. Ballard
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the… — Winifred Mary Letts
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the… — Norman Mailer
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name… — Walt Whitman
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of… — Damon Thayer
He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves — John Mallory Asher
At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The… — Barry Goldwater
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white… — Elwyn Brooks White
You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back,… — Grantland Rice
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;… — Heinrich Heine
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where… — Charles Dickens
I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I… — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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