Temples Quotes - Page 16

• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

  Ben Katchor

  Thinking, Jewish History, Priesthood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Land, Cities

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Writing, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Photography, Used, Should

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973)

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• Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Confused, Men, Forests

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• Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Oasis, Band, Stones

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• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

  Chanakya

  God, Idols, Soul

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• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Optimism, Doubt, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Blame, Worship

  "The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression". Book by Robert E. Gilbert, p. 78, 2003.

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• I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Hands, Firsts, Maa

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• Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

  Katherine Dunham

  Real, Talking, Rivers

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• Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Home

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Song, Father

  "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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• Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Together, Rooms

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• I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Reading

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• Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

  Thomas Friedman

  Sports, Needs, Cathedrals

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• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Son, Religion

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Religion, Daily Life, Life Is

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Sacrifice, Body

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• Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

  Ruth Gordon

  Birthday, Inspiration, Boredom

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Memorable, Acting

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• I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Yearbook, Church

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