“For who hath despised the day of small things?”
The Bible (Zechariah 4:10)
BeginningsHumility
Architecture Quotes
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Architecture Quotes
Read the best architecture quotes on design, beauty, buildings and building for the future from Vitruvius, John Ruskin, Louis Sullivan and more.
“The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former.”
The Bible (Haggai 2:9)
RestorationHope
“Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.”
The Bible (Psalm 122:7)
BlessingHome
“And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.”
The Bible (Revelation 21:21)
CitiesHeaven
“He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock.”
The Bible (Luke 6:48)
FoundationWisdom
“By much slothfulness the building decayeth.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 10:18)
MaintenanceNeglect
“Behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.”
The Bible (Amos 7:7)
StandardsPrecision
“Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 22:13)
IntegrityWarning
“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”
The Bible (Proverbs 14:11)
IntegrityHome
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.”
The Bible (1 Peter 2:5)
FaithCommunity
“The houses that he makes last till doomsday.”
William Shakespeare
FunnyDurability
“Consent upon a sure foundation, question surveyors, know our own estate.”
William Shakespeare
PlanningFoundation
“Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, the air is delicate.”
William Shakespeare
LocationNature
“You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold.”
Francis Bacon
FunnyDesign Flaws
“The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.”
Thomas Jefferson
CriticismAmerica
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Abraham Lincoln
UnityStrength
“We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms.”
John Donne
PoetryRomance
“Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show.”
Ben Jonson
HumilityHome
“'Tis Use alone that sanctifies Expense.”
Alexander Pope
FunctionCost
“Consult the Genius of the Place in all.”
Alexander Pope
LandscapeContext
“Else our lives are incomplete, standing in these walls of Time, broken stairways, where the feet stumble as they seek to climb.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LifeFoundation
“Thus alone can we attain to those turrets, where the eye sees the world as one vast plain, and one boundless reach of sky.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
VisionAchievement
“Thatch once covered free men; under marble and gold dwells slavery.”
Seneca
SimplicityFreedom
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space for the axle, that the use of the wheel depends.”
Lao Tzu
SpaceFunction
“All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.”
Chuang Tzu
SpaceWisdom