Top 22 Quotes About Hallowed Ground
#2. Tell your bitch from hell to take it if she can here and now. This temple will be rid of your influence today. You have polluted this hallowed ground long enough.
David M. Wilmot
#3. The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
Fred Rogers
#4. To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Chief Seattle
#5. It was exciting just to stand in front of the hallowed ground of Birdland that had been blessed by John Coltrane, or the Five Spot on St. Mark's Place where Billie Holiday used to sing, where Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman opened the field of jazz like human can openers.
Patti Smith
#6. Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams
what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred
I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.
Anne Lamott
#7. How much more ought we to cherish and marvel at the fact that for nearly two thousand years people have prayed this prayer. When you take these words on your lips you stand on hallowed ground.
N. T. Wright
#8. Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.
Eraldo Banovac
#9. When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
Benjamin Mkapa
#12. Tess, I learned somethin' early about you. You are the only woman I know who doesn't need words. Everything you do speaks for you and it never lies. Just your hand on me, babe, said it all.
Kristen Ashley
#13. My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
Alan Alda
#14. The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
James Baldwin
#15. I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.
John Popper
#16. Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?
Ryan Adams
#17. I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
Vladimir Bukovsky
#18. Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It is a way of celebrating the holy ground on which you stand.
Macrina Wiederkehr
#20. It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.
Hillary Clinton
#21. The child should be taught to consider his instructor ... superior to the parent in point of authority ... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous ... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.
John Swett
#22. There's one more thing I need to tell you before we go," he said.
"What?" I asked in a clipped voice, wanting to get back to a safe place and away from the seductive spirits that lingered here.
He leaned down, lips brushing my cheek as I opened the door. "I like your hair.
Andrea Cremer