Top 211 Statues Quotes & Sayings

Mobs in the street tearing down Ulysses S. Grant statues is a really chilling sight.

You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

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

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history - north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.

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.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

I'm always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

I'm not against pulling down our statues of Confederate generals and Confederate leaders.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

BJP and RSS leaders used to attack my government over the construction of Dalit memorials and statues, including of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, in Lucknow and Noida.

There are no statues erected to critics.

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.

Now they got two little nice statues in Chariot Park to remember the gay movement. How many people have died for these two little statues to be put in the park for them to recognize gay people?

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump's base.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.

Delhi has statues and busts of so many politicians. But what about our artistes?

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

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?

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.

Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite history.

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors 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.

You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

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

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

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

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

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and ever-changing; all things that heroic statues are not.

In war, the first thing that goes, when you try to take over culture, is the statues. I think we all can recall statues with their heads cut off in museums.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

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