It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.
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.
The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
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.
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building. . . A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
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.
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.
Maimed but still magnificent. . . Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.