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
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
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
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
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
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
Michael W. Smith
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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
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
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
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
Henry Moore
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament
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
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