Statue Quotes
230 quotes by 190 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
— Jean Sibelius
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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
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Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!
— Kevin Nealon
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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
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It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and…
— Bikram Choudhury
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
— Georg Buchner
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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Statue Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 230 Statue Quotes, led by these top contributors: