Shrines Quotations

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'

The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.

I have been given many teachings by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. OKami told me, 'By the work of Takehaya Susanowo no Mikoto, you will worship the Ame no Murakumo KuKamisamuhara Ryu O (Kami of Takemusu) and build an Aiki shrine and dojo.' Then I built the Aiki shrine and dojo in Iwama, Ibaragi prefecture in 1940.

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine ... I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. ... Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.