Cathedral Quote by Gerard Houllier

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.

— Santiago Calatrava

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

If it wasn't for Durham Cathedral I probably wouldn't be an architect. I was taken there when I was about seven and I couldn't…

— George Clarke

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When I started to build this cathedral, the word on the street was that I was crazy.

— Justo Gallego

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.”

— Marcel Proust

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

“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

When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended…

— Jonathan Anderson