Famous quotes containing the words west and/or shrine:
“The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)