Quotes on Notre Dame

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.