Cathedrals Quotes

160 Cathedrals quotes by 139 unique authors

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Henry Ward Beecher
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone… — Ai Weiwei
I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The… — Marty Stuart
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther… — John Muir
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no… — Emily Dickinson
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. — Phil Cousineau
A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and… — Tad R. Callister
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in… — Janet Frame
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. — Thomas Friedman
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. — Anita Diament
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what… — Mary Douglas
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. — James Jeans
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. — H. L. Mencken
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of… — John Muir
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a… — Robert Louis Stevenson
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. — Virginia Woolf
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from… — Martin Filler
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and… — John Irving

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