shrine quotes

O double sacrilege on things divine, To rob the relic, and deface the shrine!

-John Dryden
  'To the Pious Memory of the  AccomplishedYoung Lady Mrs  Anne Killigrew'. Killigrew had died of smallpox.

Here is the heart of our island: the Chilterns, the North Downs, the South Downs radiate hence. The fibres of England unite in Wiltshire, and did we condescend to worship her, here should we erect our national shrine.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  The Longest  Journey, ch.13.

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

- Lewis Mumford
  Of Frank Lloyd Wright.'A Phoenix Too Infrequent', in the NewYorker, 28 Nov.

   The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could. It is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine†a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

-Joyce Carol Oates
  In New Republic, 4 Nov.