Spires Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old… — Jamie Bell
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And… — Walt Whitman
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The… — John Muir
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
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is… — A. E. Housman
Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people — Ani DiFranco
and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say… — Ani DiFranco
Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?" "Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might… — Rick Riordan
I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel… — Maureen Johnson
Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur… — Tom Clancy
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable. — Laini Taylor
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round… — Karl Philipp Moritz
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. — John Corry
Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From the ice roof depending; and beneath, Grottoes and temples with their… — William Henry Burleigh
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The grey spires of Oxford Against a pearl-grey sky; My heart was with the… — Winifred M Letts

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