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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger

What is a roofless cathedral
to a well-built pie? — William Maginn

The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m. — Caitlin Doughty

Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church! — Hilary Duff

Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters. — David Byrne

[ELIZA]
You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. — Billy Joel

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon. — Kenneth Clark

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat

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

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

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. — Thomas Carlyle

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big. — Richard Branson

Everyone will live in his own cathedral. — Ivan Chtcheglov

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. — Mikhail Gorbachev

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. — Fernand Point

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral. — John Archibald Wheeler

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. — W. H. Auden

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work. — Raymond Carver

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The library is my cathedral. — Barbara Bretton

Ruins are the cathedrals of Time. — Marty Rubin

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. — Michael Gungor

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. — Laura Mvula

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. — Jimmy Buffett

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry — Sam Kean

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C.S. Lewis

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

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. — Daniel Kleppner

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

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. — John Muir

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building ... A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. — Julia Cameron

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

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. — Andrew Hunt

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin

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 need is an overnight case. — Ray Bradbury

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. — L. Ron Hubbard