Top 241 Pedestal Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later rip you down.
Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.
I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.
When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.
As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations.
'Laura' was overtly political for sure. Caspary was trying to make a point about women and independence and how men viewed them, with derision or condescension or on a pedestal, when the real person was ignored.
Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.
You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.
If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.
Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.
Sometimes I think I'm put on too high a pedestal and get thrown under the bus too much.
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.
When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.
People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.
Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.
I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.
Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.
People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
If we're not careful, this archetype of the dark, brooding, broken antihero gets held up on a pedestal for the wrong reasons.
I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.
If you snap off people's heads and get on to a kind of a pedestal, it's more difficult for people to approach you. It's much easier if you are down there with them. They will talk to you.
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.
I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
