Cathedrals Quote by John Ruskin Download Open image “There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.” — John Ruskin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cathedrals Enough Flower Garden Materials Ornaments Score
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
