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Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. -- Thomas Carlyle
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. -- Dan Flavin
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
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
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. -- Adrienne Clarkson
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. -- Janet Frame
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. -- Mary Douglas
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
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. -- Virginia Woolf
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. -- R. W. Apple
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. -- H. L. Mencken
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. -- Billy Joel
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. -- Michael Gungor
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. -- W. H. Auden
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. -- Anita Diament
The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon. -- Kenneth Clark
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 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
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
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
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
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
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope. -- Lionel Tiger
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. -- John Muir
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
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man. -- Tom Rachman
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
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. -- Richard Rogers
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. -- David Lodge
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. -- Julia Cameron
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. -- Laura Mvula
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world. -- F. Sionil Jose
The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. -- Tina Brown
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris. -- Jessye Norman
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. -- Nancy Gibbs
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us. -- Shane Claiborne
Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space. -- Martin Rees
I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests. -- Enric Sala
We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient. -- Michael Huffington
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge. -- Martin Rees
Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born. -- Jamais Cascio
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 Follett
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. -- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. -- Daniel Kleppner
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. -- Theodore Zeldin
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. -- John Ruskin
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. -- Anatoli Boukreev
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. -- Theodor Schwenk
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big. -- Richard Branson
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
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
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
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, forever incomplete. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. -- Richard Dawkins
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
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned. -- Charles Baudelaire
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals. -- Aleksandar Hemon

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