Cass Gilbert Quotes

#1. Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Cass Gilbert

#2. The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

Cass Gilbert

#3. Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

William L. Jenkins

#4. Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

Agnes Smedley

#5. We have become a force of nature.

David Suzuki

#6. I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

Cass Gilbert

#7. A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

Cass Gilbert

#8. It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Cass Gilbert

#9. I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

Cass Gilbert

#10. To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.

Cass Gilbert

#11. If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

John Lyly

#12. Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Cass Gilbert

#13. No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.'
'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?

G.K. Chesterton

#14. This man didn't sweeten his words to get to the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Instead he rode the colorful rays at his own pace, made the sky his bitch and took everything he wanted when he was good and ready.

Aline Hunter