Blue Quote by Thomas Carlyle

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

— Jonathan Anderson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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 challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

— Virginia Woolf

Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?

— William Maginn

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson