A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same,… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“Jocelyn, as the bus rolled along, looked across a space of green grass, elm-bordered, to the grey mass of the Cathedral. Its… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have… — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
