Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or temple:
“In ancient timestwas no great loss
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!I sayt with grief
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour, from Aubrey Stewarts English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)
“God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)