Bears Quote by John Owen

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible…

— Mervyn Peake

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

— Keith David

Even stones have their use, they are used in building ,they are worn as diamonds ,everything and every creature made by god has a…

— Senoraroy

“Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of…

— Karen Azinger

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

— Jean Cocteau

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

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

— Edwin Arnold

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

“The desire to know the future gnaws at our bones. That is where it started, and might have ended, years ago. I had cast…

— Pamela Freeman

“I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight,…

— Brandon Sanderson

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that…

— John Ruskin

“Monuments of murder, how poor the thoughts, how mean the memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of man on…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton