Cathedrals Quotes

• I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Believe
  • I Believe

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

  

  Gerard Houllier
  • Looks
  • Take
  • Clubs

• The courts are no longer cathedrals. They are...casinos where the throw of the dice matters.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Matters
  • Dice
  • Courts

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Efforts

• 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
  • House
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • Entertainment
  • Cinema
  • Places

• 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
  • Song
  • Night
  • Emperor

• That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • Space
  • Childhood

• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  

  Violette Leduc
  • Summer
  • Solitude
  • Burning

• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Flower
  • Ornament
  • Cathedrals

• 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
  • Men
  • Build
  • Cathedrals

• You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?

  

  Miguel Syjuco
  • Shopping
  • Graveyard
  • Unwritten

• I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Feelings

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

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Cathedrals
  • Hangs

• 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
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Civilization

• The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.

  

  William Morris Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoyment
  • Significant

• The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.

  

  William Mountford
  • Heart
  • Lasts
  • Ready

• Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

  

  Daniel Kleppner
  • Machines
  • Cathedrals

• We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Long
  • Conviction
  • Dedication

• Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.

  

  Charles Sheeler
  • Individual
  • Expression
  • Evidence