“ The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom — they are the pillars of society. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ”
- Doug MacLeod- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 2.4K
“ An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I renew my commitment to continuing the road he began and for which he made a lot of sacrifices, until the Palestinian flag flies from the walls, minarets and churches of Jerusalem. ”
- Mahmoud Abbas- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eyeCould reach, with here and there a sail just skippingIn sight, then lost amidst the forestryOf masts; a wilderness of steeples peepingOn tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crownOn a fool's head — and there is London Town. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 212
“ I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ”
- Arthur Rimbaud- Copy
- 247
“ I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds. ”
- Billy Bob Thornton- Copy
- 97
“ The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 1.2K
“ That enfabled rock, that ship of life, that swarming, million-footed, tower-masted, sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. ”
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe- Copy
- 4K
“ While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1K
“ I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ”
- Tommy Douglas- Copy
- 3K
“ The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 3K
“ There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. ”
- Claude Debussy- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa — slightly off balance. ”
- Prince of Wales Charles- Copy
- 2.5K
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