Statue Quotes

230 quotes by 190 authors

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must… — Robert Grudin
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few… — Don Young
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In… — Billy Graham
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales — Andy Zaltzman
No statue has ever been put up to a critic. — Jean Sibelius
Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces.… — Steve Pavlina
Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off! — Kevin Nealon
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped… — Seth Godin
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yogaâ€¦ Itâ€™s just you and… — Bikram Choudhury
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of… — Bruce Lee
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to… — Pope Dionysius
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff. — Mahatma Gandhi
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,… — George Orwell
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or… — Christopher Hitchens
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. — Georg Buchner
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque… — Thomas Jefferson
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought… — William Wordsworth
I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to… — Anne Rice

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