Quotes and Sayings About Pedestal
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The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
-- Albert C. Barnes -
May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
-- Albert Camus -
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
-- Althea Gibson -
I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
-- Barry Sanders -
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
-- Bella Abzug -
I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
-- Billy JoelSource : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
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Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.
-- Christian Louboutin -
Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
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And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.
-- Doc Watson -
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
-- Frances Wright -
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Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
-- Frank Herbert -
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
-- Gerald Stanley LeeSource : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”
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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
-- Guy Kawasaki -
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.
-- Honore Daumier -
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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.
-- Humphry Davy -
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
-- Ichiro Suzuki -
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
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When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
-- Louise Colet -
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
-- Morgan Brittany -
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
-- Naomi Campbell -
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I think celebrities are kind of put up on a pedestal and we don't really know much about them. I feel like my fans know every part of me because I've shown them.
-- Shane DawsonSource : Source: uwire.com
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The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
-- Teresa Mummert -
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.
-- Timothy MortonSource : Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
-- Vivienne Westwood -
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
-- William Lloyd Garrison