Shrines Enter Quotes & Sayings

The Sanctuary and its deities were the main source of the city's income. Visitors paid to enter the city. They had to buy the correct apparel to perform rituals in the Sanctuary. They had to pay again to acquire offerings for the gods. Mecca was not just one of the world's oldest shrines, it was a citadel for capitalism. The people who oiled the wheels of Meccan religious life were known as Hums. — Ziauddin Sardar

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. — Gail Parent

A Japanese woman friend whose infant son died seven days into his life - no detectable reason - just the small breathing becoming nothing until it disappeared, told me that in Japan, there is a two-term word - "mizugo" - which translates loosely to "water children." Children who did not live long enough to enter the world as we live in it. In Japan, there are rituals for mothers and families, practices and prayers for the water children. There are shrines where a person can visit and deliver words and love and offerings to the water children. — Lidia Yuknavitch

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing. — Sam J. Jones

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. — Tom Cruise

I must say, I find everything interesting. — Miriam

No daycare center can duplicate a mother. — J. Budziszewski

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. — George Orwell

She said ... she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world. — Dean Koontz

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music. — Eyvind Kang