“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City.… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness… — Peter Coveney Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“Avis named her business Paradise Pastry because she imagined cathedrals. She thought about the stonemasons, glassblowers, sculptors- who gave lifetimes to the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . . — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all… — Dagmar Godowsky Copy Share Image
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know.… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until… — John Goddard Copy Share Image
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image