Built Quote by Kenneth Clark

“Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York”

— Ambrose Bierce

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

— Ambrose Bierce

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The…

— John Milton

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

— Louis MacNeice

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 worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

— Mason Cooley

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick…

— James Hillman

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the…

— F. Sionil Jose

“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

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the…

— Anonymous