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Cathedrals Quotes (page 3)

You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral!" "She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the best burrito of your life. Didn't you know? Barbara Kingsolver
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as... Terry Prachett
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
Henry Moore quote: "Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral."
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. Henry Moore
H. L. Mencken quote: "The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral."
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
Anita Diament quote: "The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room,..."
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. Anita Diament
Robert Hughes quote: "It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. Robert Hughes
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
Frank Lloyd Wright quote: "Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to..."
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
Virginia Woolf quote: "That great Cathedral space which was childhood."
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. Virginia Woolf
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
You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. Michael Cunningham

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