Top 365 Statue Quotes & Sayings

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

I had never imagined that one day, my statue would be installed at Madame Tussauds.

My faith is in God. If it's a little statue of Buddha or whatever works for you, brilliant.

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.

I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece.

Yesterday, the country of Kosovo unveiled an 11-foot tall statue of former President Clinton. Yeah. That's right. The Clinton statue is so life-like, it's already been slapped 12 times.

Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart.

The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.

When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.

What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

There is a statue of limitation.

I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

I get chills when I think that there's a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that.

He was a man of great statue

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.