Statue Quotes

230 quotes by 186 authors

It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest… — Neal Shusterman
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. — Roger Stone
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you… — Robert Breault
I have great love for St. Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have a statue of St.… — Pope Francis
In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United… — William Jennings Bryan
I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. — Felix Baumgartner
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that… — Meshell Ndegeocello
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling. — Al Lopez
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue… — Stuart Dybek
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he… — Vaclav Havel
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to… — Plotinus
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. — John Lithgow
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and… — Nancy Gibbs
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. — Claude Chabrol
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which… — Mireille Guiliano
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death,… — Lou Reed
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being… — I. Bernard Cohen

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