Statues Quote Quotes

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life. ~ Amit Chaudhuri

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues. ~ Aesop

what I preferred
was not statues but the bird in the statue's hair. ~ Derek Walcott

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete. ~ Giles Duley

Please tell me we don't have to find it," Percy said. "I've had enough giant magic statues for one trip. ~ Rick Riordan

When my journal appears, many statues must come down. ~ Arthur Wellesley

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple. ~ Pythagoras

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

The ancient Greeks enjoyed colors and it is assumed that they painted their statues. One can still see today small deposits of colors in classical statues. More than a thousand years later the Renaissance sculptors copied the ancient statues, leaving off the colors. I find that symbolic and telling; what else have we copied from the past, leaving off the colors, nuances, or even the essential meanings? ~ Stephen Poplin

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. ~ Franz Grillparzer

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues. ~ Billy Crystal

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. ~ Philippa Gregory

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians. ~ George Armstrong Custer

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing. ~ Agesilaus II

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above? ~ James Elroy Flecker

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be. ~ James Wolcott

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted. ~ Bill Shorten

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. ~ Horace

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 Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide. ~ Len G. Murray

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge. ~ M. E. W. Sherwood

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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

You are beyond the sky; so go there. ~ Steven Cuoco

Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to represent abstract Beauty. Very wonderful. But I hope there will always be room for me to dart about among the statues, don't you, Father Stone? ~ Ray Bradbury

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger. ~ Sir Fulke Greville

If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. ~ Bhimsen Sapkota

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small? ~ Emem Uko

Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end. ~ Ken Poirot

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that. ~ Bobby Darnell

i want to rip out my heart before you get to it first. ~ Christina Strigas

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well. ~ Karon Waddell

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit. ~ Deborah Sandella

I always thought that would be really neat if black people ever got control of the United States we would, of course, tear down some of the statues because we just don't like them...like all of Richmond would probably not have a statue standing. ~ Nikki Giovanni

The more a customer buys INTO you; the more a customer will buy FROM you. ~ Troy Clark

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 make me last longer than me. ~ Anthony Quinn

He is our man's-man of literature. ~ Andrew Barger

You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit from. I think that's what I'd like to do. ~ George Foreman

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships. ~ Catherynne M Valente

I think of you, therefore I exist. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

You basically get paid according to the amount of time you invest. ~ Yohann Dafeu

Dont take tension, because it loose your dimension. ~ Zahid

Crisis is both danger and opportunity. ~ Chinese Quote

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky ~ Yoko Ono

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing. ~ Norwegian Quote

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. ~ C.S. Lewis

The secret to selling is to "sell the secret". Your sales presentation should make your product sound like the "best kept secret" in your entire industry. ~ Troy Clark

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 whole span - pedestrian-only - was lined by monumental statues of saints. ~ Laini Taylor

Reaching up, reaching out,
and still we take you.
A tree quote from the song 'My Persephone ~ Andrea Koehle Jones

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 the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited. ~ Stefan Molyneux

Selling is a form of serving the needs of others. ~ Troy Clark

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, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life. ~ Ken Poirot

When the vision of your dreams gets blurry remember to readjust your lens. ~ Angel Moreira

Success does not start at the top; it begins by deciding to get up from the bottom. ~ Ken Poirot

When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and respect themselves; then you have arrived as a leader. ~ Vishwas Chavan

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 puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents. ~ Cat Stevens

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery. ~ Steven Cuoco

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small. ~ Carl Sagan

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 and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same. ~ J.K. Rowling

Where are you?'
'I am between the light and the waves. ~ Laurie Nadel

So many good pages; so many good quotes. But please remember this: one single quote does not, cannot, and will not apply to all life experiences. ~ Charles F. Glassman

Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired. ~ Patti Smith

The only thing bothering me is, i am no more her priority now.. ~ Your Quote Us

God transformed the darkest day humankind had ever known into a new sunrise, and He can transform our darkest days into new birth as well. ~ Tessa Emily Hall

Sitacuisses philosaphus mansisses' If you had kept your mouth shut, we may have thought you were cleverer! ~ Latin Quote

With you, it's different.
It's like a coming home. ~ Nikki Rowe

People fish because they are searching for something. Often it is not for a fish. ~ Fennel Hudson

The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism. ~ Laurie Nadel

Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot. ~ Harrison Ford

To quote or not to quote that is syntactically correct ~ Me

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness. ~ Honore De Balzac

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it. ~ Lewis Foreman Day

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship. ~ Ihab Hassan

De mortuis nil nisi bonum (Speak naught but the good of the dead) ~ Latin Quote

If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up. ~ Laurie Nadel

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization. ~ Laurie Nadel

If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say – except to go soar with the freakin' eagles. ~ Ryan Lilly

Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from. ~ Steven Cuoco

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 statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot. ~ Christian Louboutin

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul. ~ Anna White

The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos. ~ Laurie Nadel

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape ... But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. ~ Alan Moore

Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work and thus cliques are formed of people who quote one another. It's an "I quote you, you quote me" type of business. ~ Nicholas Nassim Taleb

If you are in hard times, ask yourself: "What would this problem and my life mean to people two hundred years from now? ~ Catherine B. Roy

Don't worry, William. I've seen the future, and this all works out reasonably well...

- From Almost Famous, 2000 ~ Movie Quote

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, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether. ~ Laurie Nadel

I have a secret. My inner smile is shining. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Extraordinary effervescence exists within you, waiting to be tapped. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I love and commit to nourishing my inner child. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree