Top 365 Statue Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.
I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.
I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
There’s nothing here,” Carter said. “What do you want?” I asked. “We’ve got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
You never grow up thinking you'll have your own personal bobblehead. And then when you make it, it's like, 'Damn, here's a little mini statue.'
If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!
Why did Triple H make that statue of Ric Flair? So where is it now? Where do you think it's at? There's no Hall Of Fame.
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.
The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
Our government, keeping aspirations of the Brahmin community in mind, will construct a statue of Parshuram grander than the one promised by the SP.
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.
I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.
He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.
Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
