Gothic Cathedral Quotes

#1. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.

Stendhal

#2. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's

Donna Leon

#4. Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government

James Madison

#5. Someday,
you will take the notebook that has awaited you
forever and begin to construct your walls of song
and then, leap over them.

Maria Negroni

#6. People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.

Heinrich Heine

#7. I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

Susan Vreeland

#8. 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

#9. I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

Tyra Banks

#10. I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes

#11. A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Crouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster

Justin Bienvenue

#13. The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.

A. Hunter Dupree

#14. ..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get.

Meraaqi

#15. I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.

Arto Lindsay

#16. If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired Cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystic light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially.

Don DeLillo

#17. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

Amelia Earhart

#18. No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims.

Timothy Snyder

#19. You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.

Eric Davis

#20. When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

Juan Enriquez

#21. We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.

Richard J. Foster