Skyscraper Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old skyscraper quotes, skyscraper sayings, and skyscraper proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Tall buildings have local, regional, and international connotations, and appropriately contextualizing them into the realm of cities can create better places. Kheir Al-Kodmany
The earliest forms of building regulations were laws enacted by individual cities in response to a specific need. J. Stanley Rabun
A general rule is that the size of materials should be proportionate to the grandeur of the building and its character. Alexander Tzonis
The taller the building is, the more people and business can fit on the same piece of land. Rebecca Stefoff
The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence. Stephen Hough
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel. Mason Cooley
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Federico Garcia Lorca
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Roland Barthes
A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay. Cass Gilbert
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them. Malcolm Muggeridge
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. Ayn Rand
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet. Ada Louise Huxtable
The skyscraper any building over seven stories really will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy. James Howard Kunstler
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. George Gershwin
A skyscraper built within your own mind may never crumble. Kazuki Nakashima
The super-tall building not only drastically changes the literal landscape, but it changes the symbolic landscape as well. Georges Binder