Cathedrals Quotes

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

— Thomas Friedman

The library is my cathedral.

— Barbara Bretton

Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?

— William Maginn

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

— Thomas Carlyle

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

— Billy Joel

“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”

— Hannah Kent

“in those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

— Marcel Proust

“The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.”

— Russell Moore

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

— Hardy Kruger

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a…

— Gloria Steinem

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by…

— John Muir

“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they…

— Marcel Proust

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which…

— Scott Hastie

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and…

— Charles Baudelaire

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My…

— Boris Pasternak

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so…

— Tony Campolo

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a…

— A. Hunter Dupree

We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second…

— Charles R. Schwab

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a…

— Joseph Fort Newton

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

Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend…

— Stephen Dobyns

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

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

9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people…

— Benjamin Barber

It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you…

— Carl Jung

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

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.…

— John Ruskin

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of…

— Karen Russell

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

— Fernand Point

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

— Phil Cousineau