Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black... — Danielle O'Hara Copy Share Image
“True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
In fact some Jews themselves even claim that there should be a statue to Adolf Hitler in Israel because he created the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Only drunks stare at statues … I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy,… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
When I drew Captain America in 'The Ultimates,' I hated my Cap, even though some people are like, 'Man, your Cap's cool!'… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything.… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted… Nothing was gained, unless horses… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
“I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving… — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image