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• I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Liberty, Jersey, Grew Up

  Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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• 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

  Men, Different, Lasts

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• Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

  Lou Reed

  Tired, Reality, Giving

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• Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Couple, Two

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• I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Light

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• Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Hot, Looks

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

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Idols, Desire, Stones

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• 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.

  Al Lopez

  Feelings, Built, Knows

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Character, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.434

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Lying, Block

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.82

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

  Walter Scott

  First Love, Snow, Twenties

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• Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Accomplishment, Bravery

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• The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Luxury, Arrogance

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Zoos, Stupid

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Block, Thinking, Flames

  Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235

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• We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Skulls, Mind, Trying

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• 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

  Bridges, Icons, Rose

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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

  Felix Baumgartner

  Jesus, Rio De Janeiro, Rio

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• The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

  V. S. Naipaul

  People, Gold, Done

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

  John Worlidge

  Summer, Hope, Art

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

  Deena Nicole Cortese

  Sexy, Thinking

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• Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

  Louise Bogan

  Agony, Marble

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• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  Macy Gray

  Bronze Medal, Water, Curls

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