Cathedrals Quote by F. Sionil Jose

All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our…

— Sonya Levien

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

— Victor Hugo

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

— Robert M. Hensel

“The power you feel when you see the Pyramids is the great will and mind power of the ancient people who built them!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Postcolonial nation-building was an extraordinary project: hundreds of millions of people persuaded to renounce – and often scorn – a world of the past…

— Pankaj Mishra

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

— Walter Benjamin

Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a…

— Barack Obama

“Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Building cathedrals is a calling. In Italy they gave masons who died during the construction of a church the status of a martyr. Even…

— Jo Nesbø

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the…

— Georges Bataille

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of…

— Christo