Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
Maimed but still magnificent. . . Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.
