Cathedral Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century…

— A. Hunter Dupree

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

— Marcel Proust

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

The library is my cathedral.

— Barbara Bretton

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

— Hardy Kruger

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to…

— William Wendt

We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the…

— Roger Revelle

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

— Gerard Houllier

“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for the architect…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first…

— Robert Louis Stevenson