Relics Quotations

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Now with the new images, we're able to watch when the frost comes and goes and we can see that dunes are moving today and aren't just relics from times past.

But most important, these precious relics bring visitors inspiration and healing. To be in their presence is to be in the presence of the Buddha and other masters.

(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work

These relics are so important to Buddhists, but we want to share them with people of all faiths. We believe they are the embodiment of the Buddha's compassion and wisdom.

The more one looks at this and studies these extraordinary objects, the more one begins to hear the sounds of battle. This is about as close as one can get to that extraordinary moment in world history when the American Revolution was taking place. It was accomplished with heroism and a tremendous amount of bloodshed. And these flags flew above these armies. I've called them the last great relics of the American Revolution in private hands, and no one has disputed that.

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.