Statues Quotes

128 quotes by 112 authors

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live… — Marcus Aurelius
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure… — Malcolm Gladwell
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. — Phil Donahue
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going… — Ed Koch
A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek… — Christian Louboutin
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was… — Cat Stevens
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. — Steven Wright
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes… — Edwidge Danticat
he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America — Philip Reeve
And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,… — Haruki Murakami
This world is a great sculptorâ€™s shop. We are the statues and thereâ€™s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday… — C.S. Lewis
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept… — Nora Roberts
Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the… — Leon Uris
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and… — Kurt Vonnegut
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio… — Aravind Adiga

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