Statues Quotes - Page 8

• Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Men, Flesh

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

  George Orwell

  Party, Book, Politics

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Lying, Communication

  "Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R".

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Events, Horizon

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• The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

  Georg Buchner

  Hot, Fingers, Casts

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

  Neal Shusterman

  Brother, Memories, Dark

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• The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Voice, Appreciate, Taught

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

  Robert Breault

  Block, Character, Venus De Milo

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• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Believe, Maturity

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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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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• South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

  Robert Mugabe

  Men, White Man, Black

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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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• What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

  William James

  Life, Death, Light

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• Everybody knows how much I love Arsenal - I became a fan. And to be out here [in front of the Emirates as a statue] celebrating a goal against Tottenham, there's not much else to say after thatLike I've said before, Once a Gooner, always a Gooner.

  Thierry Henry

  Goal, Fans, Celebrate

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• As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Real, Boys, Saint

  The New York Times, April 18, 1967.

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• 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.

  Randolph Bourne

  Anger, Society, Likes

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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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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• Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Example, Warning

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.449, Modern Library

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• In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Country, Hero

  William J. Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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