Statue Quotations

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.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!

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.

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.'

I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's 'Spider-Man' fights used to happen in and around.

Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

What we're doing is we're adding about three sentences to the state statue on scenic byways.

The coverage we saw on September 11, and in that first week of Katrina, not only won't make this stuff go away, it ups the ante. You don't want to just see the Hollywood sign fall, you want the Statue of Liberty along with it.

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

Last year, some wanted to go to Block Island and the Statue of Liberty.

Let's get real. It won't happen in a nation that has the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. We won't build the Berlin Wall or the Israeli fence. There will be changes, though.

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

She saw it and thought that they made the statue for a little boy who might have died. So she wanted to give him a hug.

Neon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,Beauty she was statue cold - there's blood upon her gown.

Neon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town, Beauty she was statue cold - there's blood upon her gown.

Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

If they ever do, they've got to take my picture from about 20 years ago when I was kind of thin. I don't want a fat statue out there.

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.

Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbolic of those sacrifices, ultimately a decision was made to honor no one in particular, but everyone who made the supreme sacrifice.

When they're put back into popular culture and the media in ways that don't seem consistent with their sacredness, their holiness, that's where blasphemy occurs. The test of blasphemy is often not whether we as the consumers feel a T-shirt of an icon or a statue is misplaced or misused. The real test is what do members of that community of faith think?

It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

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

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

We had given up hope of ever getting the statue back and put in an insurance claim and next day it was returned.

We need this statue to tell all the children with disabilities and all their parents that anything is possible,

This statue will serve as a reminder to all those who visit the Peace Garden of the love and hope for the peace my son always held in his heart. This sculpture and the Center that surrounds it will carry Tupac's message on down to our children's children.

This statue will serve as a reminder to all of those who visit the Peace Garden of Love and Hope, for peace is something my son always held in his heart. This sculpture and the Center that sorrounds it will carry Tupac's message on down to our children's children.

This statue is a glorified thing to have on my alma mater. It is here for the youth of America.

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.

This whole show is about people's dreams, making them come true. The whole basis of it is, nobody dreams of pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Nobody dreams of vanishing the Statue of Liberty unless they're me, but . . . I'll do a whole piece about having your perfect dream car, making cars appear and motorcycles appear ? people dream about that. People dream about traveling, so I'll vanish somebody in the audience and make them appear on the beach in Hawaii during the show, with proof, with signatures, with Polaroid pictures, so they know it's happening in real time.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

The statue was very meaningful to my mother --- our dad did bring a little bit of hope to many.

The statue is complete and is being shipped (from the Czech Republic) even as we speak.

The statue is a little bit dirty and missing a couple of details. But it's still in pretty good shape.

The statue embodies racial division and conjures up images of white domination and supremacy that have had a corrosive effect on race relations in Pitt County.

So stands the statue that enchants the world,/ So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,/ The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

Right now, we have plans to put a Neyland statue out there, as well as some type of system to recognize our great players, All-Americans and College Hall of Fame members,

Probably the statue was meant to represent Hercules' ninth labor to retrieve the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.

People who go shopping on Columbus Boulevard look at the ship and wonder, 'What's that piece of junk?' I want them to know that it was as big as the Statue of Liberty. I want them to know what an American icon it was.

An icon? That's a little much, you're putting me up there with the Statue of Liberty. But yeah, I am identified with the city.

They showed you a statue and told you to prayThey built you a temple and locked you awayBut they never told you the price that you payFor things that you might have done.

This is a very valuable statue and we are working closely with the Henry Moore Foundation to ensure its safe return. The foundation is offering a substantial reward for information leading to its recovery.

It's pretty hard to hide something like that. Someone may have seen the statue or heard somebody bragging about it. That may be all we need to solve the crime.

The next day, the Department of Homeland Security issues warnings of attacks against railroads nationwide, and against New York City landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Number two. Thursday, June 6, 2002.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has

So build a statue and oh build it high so the world can see then inscribe 'the world's greatest fool' and name it after me.

Evidently when the statue was returned somebody thought they were going to get the reward, but it still hasn't been determined exactly who all was involved, ... There's been a lot of finger-pointing, but that doesn't make it credible. We're piecing it together and will probably make an arrest soon.

I'm not saying we should dominate the new game, but the Boardwalk should be one of the stops. Sure, put in the Statue of Liberty and Disney World and other places, but it's a slight to not have the Atlantic City boardwalk as one of the stops.

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?

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.

I'm really glad today for Karl Malone. But (the current Jazz players) weren't involved in (the celebration) that much. They weren't out there on the street (during the statue unveiling).

In the Statue of Liberty, we see a symbol that all are welcome and have a fair chance to succeed. In New York, our two torches can come together a place to compete and to dream.

I love the Biblical subjects and the Italian art. My favorite artist I can say is Michelangelo. He was an unbelievable artist. He could handle any kind of statue made from stone and paint anything anywhere, like he did at the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It probably is the greatest artwork ever done.

In my living room - it's probably going to be moved to my office soon because it freaks too many people out - I have a huge seven foot statue of 'Seven of Nine' of 'Star Trek Voyager.'

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

I fear that a nation that displays the biggest crime of its history as an elegant, chic statue will sometime have to be accused of shamelessness,

The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.

The great thing about some of these pieces is that they are all unique. The particular statue is mercury and this is made of lead.

You want to see some of the basics of the city, which aren't expensive at all, like the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, which you can see for free from the Staten Island Ferry. Places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a suggested donation fee so it can be as inexpensive as you like.

The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

What we need is support to build a bigger and better version of two buildings and more that were taken down by people that were animals, ... If something happened to the Statue of Liberty, you wouldn't rebuild it as something other than the Statue of Liberty.

With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

The statue is permanently out of place in my house,

The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing

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