Chris Abani

The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

Nigerian Author

Katherine Dunn

Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.

American Novelist

Marie Kondo

The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.

Japanese Businesswoman

Evan Osnos

In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.

American Journalist

Imtiaz Ali

Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

Indian Director

Charles Buck

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Aristophanes

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Greek Poet

Howard Carter

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

English Scientist

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Sioux Author

Michael McKean

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

American Actor

Used when recognizing figures of great importance or events.

Honoring Notables

Implies a place of quiet respect, often with subdued atmosphere.

Solemn Spaces

Shrines evoke personal or collective emotion tied to the honored subject.

Emotional Connection

Indicates a place imbued with religious significance or veneration.

Sacred Sites

Commonly a journey's goal for spiritual reasons or searching for meaning.

Pilgrimage Destinations

Often an atmosphere of peace and divinity surrounds a religious shrine.

Spiritual Aura

Denotes a personal space dedicated to something or someone admired.

Devotion Symbol

Can represent an enthusiastic celebration of a hobby or interest.

Fandom Expression

Includes small, intimate spaces in homes dedicated to memories of loved ones.

Personal Memorials

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Investigating Rock...

 any idea just trust in this area with your jackhammers with your machinery or whatever dynamite or explosive you want to bring in here you're basically destroyed a shrine the confluent mill Colorado River meets the Colorado River where they meet this is for life begins

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 mean you feel that sacredness when you go into the building and especially into the shrine itself you you see the pilgrims who are in ecstasy as they go in and they're seeing something that they believed in all their life and and

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 present and past you know portals into an underworld or into a world of ancestors and so you have cave paintings you know you have a shrines next to these access points into these caves which are often just sinkholes

Descendents of Cahokia PIPE...

 we are saying is that some people paid the price for that now it's coming back to us in friend forms and what do we do we seek them use them we don't abuse them we use them is a sacrifice in the city shrine

Context determines...

 America's float would be a neon shrine to second chances. But America, generous with second chances to the children of other lands, today grows miserly with first chances to the children of its own.

Anand Giridharadas: A...

 only that we respect them. Museums are temples to things past. Now they must also become places for living cultures. As I turned to walk away from the shrine, I drank in the warm summer air,

Why museums are...

 before the household shrine with its protective deities, as he places his bulla, a protective amulet, in the shrine with a prayer of thanks. The bulla had worked. It had protected him.

A glimpse of teenage...

 How could he have been so foolish, to shirk his most important rule and corrupt his divine journey? After a tormented night, he resolved to go back to the shrine to cleanse himself.

The Japanese folktale of...

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