Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

- Edith Pearlman

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

- H. L. Mencken

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.

- Henry Moore

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

- Joanna Southcott

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

- Michael W. Smith

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

- Oscar Niemeyer

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

- Robert Hughes

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

- Thomas Friedman