Cathedral Quotes

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

Rock, Single, Him

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

Great, Made, Inspired

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken

Music, House, Opera

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Nothing, Him

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

House, Build, Chicken

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf

Great, Space, Childhood

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
Tony Campolo

Faith, Made, Culture

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.
Thomas Friedman

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki

Important, Quality, Gothic

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
Henry Moore

Picture, Seeing

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line.
Karen Russell

Writing, Friends, Line

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
Michael W. Smith

Prayer, Service, National

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
Sinclair Lewis

Nothing, Once, Times

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

Good, Challenge

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament

Family, Heart, Room

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.
Michael Cunningham

Great, End, Book

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

Place, Between, Earth

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
Ken Follet

Great, Society, Away

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
Joanna Southcott

Faith, Strong, Before

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
Malcolm Boyd

Good, Women, Men

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes

Travel, Dedicated, Secular

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

Beautiful, Said, Making

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
James Jeans

Put, Stars, Three

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. Apple, Jr.

Europe, Medieval, Maimed

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