Beauty Quote by Pascal Mercier

I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need…

— Pascal Mercier

“It’s the Lord’s space and the Lord’s worlds in space, Father. We must not try to take our cathedrals with us, when all we…

— Ray Bradbury

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it…

— Pascal Mercier

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

“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

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

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

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

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

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

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

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