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- 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… — 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… — 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… — Charles Dickens
- Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — 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… — Unknown Author
- It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It… — Oswald Spengler
- The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled… — Norman Mailer
- 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
- More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman
- The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest… — Unknown Author