Architecture Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

— Santiago Calatrava

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

— Gerard Houllier

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made…

— Robert H. Schuller

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

“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

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

— Michael Gungor

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

— Theodor Schwenk

“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