To. . all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.
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.
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. '
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
Art is a profession, not a shrine.
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.
Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.
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 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.
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
For I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order. . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.
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.
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?