Quote by William Cullen Bryant Download Open image ““The groves were God's first temple”” — William Cullen Bryant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“No pillar holds a temple, it is your stupidity and foolishness to uphold God” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
“...a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate. We must never… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees… — Beau Taplin Copy Share Image
Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
“All at once A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone.” — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
The words of fire that from his pen Were flung upon the fervid page, Still move, still shake the hearts of men, Amid a… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious,… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
“The sounds I had heard seemed worthy to mingle with this bright and perfumed atmosphere, and to thrill the beautiful scenery around me.” — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
“Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. ” — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image