Quotes About Greek Architecture

#1. There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

Nicholas Biddle

#2. Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

H. P. Blavatsky

#4. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.

William Peter Blatty

#5. Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#6. How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives?

Bram Stoker

#7. Men are far more likely to clean things with spit than women are.

Marc Schmatjen

#8. White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

Al Sharpton

#9. Every battle you have to fight, is an opportunity for the glory of God to be revealed.The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Arne Jacobsen

#12. In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

Alex Ebert

#13. The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple.

Rudolf Steiner

#14. There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

Lydia Davis

#15. The gates of peace should always be open.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#16. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.

Nathaniel Hawthorne