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  • It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.

    Block   Kids   Thinking  
  • To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

  • Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

    Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).
  • He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

    Quoted in Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary, ed. David McCord (1936)
  • It was also great shooting in London at Pinewood Studios because of all its history. So many of the 007 movies were filmed there, as well as classics by everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Jack Nicholson to Martin Scorcese. It's like working on hallowed ground. So, I felt a responsibility to make sure I did as good a job as I possibly could.

    ""Skyfall"-ing for a Bond Girl - Naomie Harris". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.
  • I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

    Military   War   Squad  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

    Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media
  • I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.

    Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.133, Algonquin Books
  • The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

    Space   People   Trying  
  • Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred - I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then 15 years later, I even started to make real money.

    Dream   Real   Years  
    Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin
  • To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

    Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169
  • There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

  • I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

    Zero   People   Towers  
  • Distance lends enchantment to the view.

    Wise   Wisdom   Distance  
    Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press
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