Builder Quote by Adrienne Clarkson

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

— David Lodge

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Marcel Proust

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great…

— Michael Atiyah

“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”

— Anonymous

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would…

— Michael Ondaatje

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral,…

— Miguel Syjuco

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;…

— Hubert H. Humphrey