Quote by Clive James

“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place…

— Anne Lamott

“I think that when Lady Tamarind looks at you, she feels as the cathedral might if it suddenly remembered that once it had been…

— Frances Hardinge

“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for the architect…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built…

— Rachel Joyce

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

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal…

— Lionel Tiger

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

“Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress—one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy.”

— Bella Forrest

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

“You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed…

— John Steinbeck

“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need them against the vulgarity of…

— Pascal Mercier