Cathedrals Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Business, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Challenges, Very Good, Inventiveness

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• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Easter, Tasks, Scripture

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• A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

  Michael Shermer

  Glasses, Light, Space

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• Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

  Thomas Friedman

  Sports, Needs, Temples

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• [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

  Robert Moses

  Cities, Taste, Architecture

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Humor, Blue

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• 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.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Best Friend, Home, Gay

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• Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

  R. W. Apple

  Europe, Medieval, Magnificent

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• 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

  Cutting, Tree, Church

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.237, Library of America

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• I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

  Roland Barthes

  Passion, Mean, Thinking

  Mythologies "La Nouvelle Citroen" (1957) (translation by Annette Lavers)

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

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Religion, Rooms

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• 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

  Heart, Men, People

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.8, Vertebrate Publishing

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• 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

  World, Sanctuary, Circus

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro (2010). “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”, p.327, Zondervan

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Light, Rays

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Bridges, World, Modern

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• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Music, House

  1925 Letter to Isaac Goldberg.

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• There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

  Emily Dickinson

  Winter, Light, Tunes

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.59, First Avenue Editions

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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

  Spiritual, Blessed, Inspiration

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Tree, Humanity, Sacred

  "Nature Is My God". Interview with Fred Matser in "Resurgence", No. 184, September-October 1997.

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• 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

  Music, Moving, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  One Day, Stories, Medieval

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• The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.

  William Wendt

  Song, Sweet, Prayer

  John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”

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• 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

  Artist, Important, Quality

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