Statues Quotes

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The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. — Marguerite Yourcenar
Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. — Euripides
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they… — Heinrich Heine
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the… — Laini Taylor
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to… — Phyllis McGinley
You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot… — Frederick Lenz
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had… — V.S. Naipaul
When my journal appears, many statues must come down. — Duke of Wellington
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make… — Tom McCall
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built… — Simon Hoggart
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to… — Anthony Quinn
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. — Horace
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruceâ€”to which in fact he was once taken. Trying… — David Markson
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… — Ben Okri
I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes… — Tom McCall

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