Age Quote by Andre Malraux

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

— Mark Batterson

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious…

— Martin Rees

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of…

— Ayn Rand

We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible…

— Bernd Becher

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. . . . We will keep…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might…

— Edvard Grieg

“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a…

— Paul Collins