#grandeur

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#builders #disillusionment #grandeur #master #often

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#both #certain #clear #coastal #dominant

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ↗

— Jean Genet

#darkness #dream #dreaming #grandeur #long

You sea! I resign myself to you also- I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me. We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, Cushion me soft, rock me billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#identity #nature-s-grandeur #sea #nature

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#greatness #illusions #same #visions

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#better #delusions #feel #grandeur #lot

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#democracy #forest #grandeur #our #our people

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#children #glory #grandeur #just #leaves

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#difficulties #grandeur #lives #many #owe