Temple Bell Rings

Famous quotes containing the words temple, bell and/or rings:

    “After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
    —Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

    “Ye say they all have passed away,
    That noble race and brave;
    That their light canoes have vanished
    From off the crested wave;
    That, mid the forests where they roamed,
    There rings no hunters’ shout;
    But their name is on your waters,
    Ye may not wash it out.”
    —Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)