Words matter. These are the best Statues Quotes from famous people such as Frank Deford, Simon Beaufoy, James Thomson, Alistair Horne, Tony Harrison, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
If you’ve been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn’t want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in ‘The Gaze of the Gorgon.’
Statues of sports stars are all the rage – especially in baseball.
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.
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.
A lot of women don’t like when they’re sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.
In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.
I’m always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There’s a reasonable shot that – because of his money – we will cure malaria.
We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.
Here’s the thing – I mean, I don’t act for statues. I really don’t. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.
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.
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.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
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?
You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn’t mean anything. Leave something that we’re all going to benefit from. I think that’s what I’d like to do.
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan’s Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to Greek and Roman ideals, from which our artists cannot get away.
I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history – north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.
The great untruth around which everything pivots is the idea that the defenders of these statues are the defenders of history and truth; while those who want to see them toppled or contextualised are the Huns at the gate, who would destroy national histories and bring down great men.
