Cathedrals Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

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

“The church tower, firm in line, soaring unfalteringly to its tapering point, topped with red tiles and broad in the roof, an earthly building…

— Franz Kafka

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

— Gerard Houllier

No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Santiago Calatrava

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

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

— Michael Gungor

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”

— Hannah Kent

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

— Oscar Niemeyer