Idols Quotes · Page 7

We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.

— Mike Rowe

All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there.

— DJ Premier

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

— Chanakya

Messi and Ronaldinho were the two players who were my idols when I was young.

— Leroy Sane

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

— Peter Kreeft

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

— Criss Jami

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

— Roger Moore

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping…

— Rob Sheffield

Because Bobby and I are both under the category of idols, I think it became a larger controversy. I hope that many…

— Kim Nam-joon

Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

— Amanda Seyfried

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right…

— William Hazlitt

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from…

— Robert Gordis

“You don’t need to worship idols of the Virgin Mary, the Christ, or the Buddha. You can if you want to; if…

— Miguel Ruiz

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose…

— Timothy Keller

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not…

— Theodore Parker

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above…

— Swami Vivekananda

If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been…

— Jennifer Egan

The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You…

— Billy Joel

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

— Corey Clark

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

— Stella Benson

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at…

— Rick Springfield

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

— Samuel Rutherford

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

— Devin Kelley

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I…

— Rutina Wesley

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

— Sophia Amoruso

I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now.

— Kelly Clarkson

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

— Shirley Manson

Were just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.

— Brendon Urie

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We all claimed God as our God, but we had been serving lesser things.”

— Kelly Minter