Cambodia Quote by Kim Fay

“...when we were walking through Angkor War, I found myself wondering about what is lost when one culture is systematically annihilated so another can…

— Kim Fay

You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had…

— Sophal Ear

I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast…

— Lawrence Osborne

“Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from now, all new people. —Message tacked to a tree by monks at Wat Umong, a…

— Jenny Blake

“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”

— David Mitchell

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

— Marcus Cornelius Fronto

When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The…

— Lewis Mumford

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

“The groves were God's first temple”

— William Cullen Bryant

The groves were God's first temples.

— William C. Bryant

“It is said of the Jews, deprived of a stable homeland for so long, their temples destroyed, and their communities in the Diaspora, that…

— Ryan Holiday