Build Quote by Santiago Calatrava

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

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

— Gerard Houllier

“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.”

— Marcel Proust

One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to…

— John Diefenbaker

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

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

— T. S. Eliot

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

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

— Theodor Schwenk

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral,…

— Minoru Yamasaki