Cathedral Quotes
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
— Henry A. Kissinger
What is a roofless cathedralto a well-built pie? — William Maginn
In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.
— Peter Matthiessen
Once upon a time, chimaera descended by the thousands into a cathedral beneath the earth. And never left.
— Laini Taylor
Crouching in position posing in perfect postureOn the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster — Justin Bienvenue
A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
— Jan Carlzon
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.
— Aleksandra Layland
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral ... it is a place between heaven and earth.
— Anselm Kiefer
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[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
— Dagmar Godowsky
It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company.
— Billie-Jo Williams
Maimed but still magnificent ... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
— R. W. Apple Jr.
You have my permission not to love me;I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I'd rather burn myself down
than change the locks. — Rachel McKibbens
Si monumentum requiris circumspice(If you seek his monument, look around.)
[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral] — Christopher Wren
You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.
— Gerard Houllier
Even peasants can build a cathedral.
— Daryl Gregory
Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.
— Francis Picabia
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.
— Phil Cousineau
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
— John Archibald Wheeler
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.
— Fernand Point
What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.
— Tom Robbins
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.
— Deepak Chopra
A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ...
— Rosario Ferre
The gilded spiralOf longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.
— Thomas Friedman
Sir Christopher Wren's Cathedral
— P.L. Travers
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Cathedral Close, when I got to St Leonard's, was emptier than a Sally Army collection box at a Pride festival,
— J.L. Merrow
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
— Pope John Paul II
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
— Betty Greene
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[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ...
— Coleman Barks
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All churches are an echo of this - the Cathedral of Nature.
— Seth Adam Smith
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
— Olivia De Havilland
We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;
— Marcel Proust
I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.
— Susan Vreeland
Everyone will live in his own cathedral.
— Ivan Chtcheglov
The heavy bell of St. Paul's cathedral rang out, announcing the death of another day.
— Charles Dickens
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
— Anita Diament
I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.
— Louise Nurding
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.
— Joseph Conrad
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
— Boris Pasternak
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
— Philip Johnson
The library is my cathedral.
— Barbara Bretton
The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.
— Anita Anand
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
— Gloria Steinem
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
— Heinrich Heine
Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral
— Daniel C. Dennett
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
— Michael W. Smith
It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?
— Graham Swift
The structure echoed the greatest cathedrals of Earth and Mars, rising up through empty air and giving both thrust-gravity stability and glory to God.
— James S.A. Corey
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed ...
— Oswald Chambers
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.
— Sonia Rykiel
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
— Emily Dickinson
Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
— Janice Macleod
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
— Virginia Woolf
Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time.
— Judith Shulevitz
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
— William Butler Yeats
She couldn't see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral.
— Graham Joyce
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
— Marcel Proust
Matt raised an eyebrow. Tour the Greek cathedral, huh? We can call it that, if you want. Sure.
— Jessica Park
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
— Wilferd Peterson
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
— Robert Hughes
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