It was a small church. No large cathedral towers…

The Taj Mahal can be a tourist attraction, an architectural marvel, but it can never be treated as a monument of faith. After all,…

— Yogi Adityanath

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

— Sam Barry

“Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”

— Robert Harris

“Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were the works…

— Lydia Millet

“Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty…

— Marcelo Figueras

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,…

— Samuel Johnson

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington…

— Morris Sheppard

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

— George Bernard Shaw