Statues Quotes
128 quotes by 107 authors
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Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues…
— George R. R. Martin
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great…
— Anne Rice
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
— Pythagoras
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Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as…
— Stefan Molyneux
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Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons." We all looked at him. "Kidding,"…
— Rick Riordan
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The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and…
— George R. R. Martin
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,…
— Will Durant
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Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind…
— Doris Humphrey
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
— Octavian Paler
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We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.
— Mohammed Omar
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There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only…
— Len G. Murray
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With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were…
— Howard Carter
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Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
— James Thomson
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and…
— Zahi Hawass
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Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of…
— C.S. Lewis
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Stones become statues, when God becomes commodity
— Charles Elba
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Keep your issues in your tissue box, and learn how to keep them out of your status box.
— Blondie:)
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VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
— Phillips Brooks
Who Wrote These Statues Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 128 Statues Quotes, led by these top contributors: