Storied Stone Pagoda

Famous quotes containing the words storied, stone and/or pagoda:

    ““Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
    With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me;
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door.””
    —Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

    “I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head.... But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)