Human Pyramid Quotes

#1. Beautiful," she said. I turned the page, and she smiled. It was a picture of the day when we built the human pyramid in my backyard, and I was at the top. The caption read: One day, all these Mexicans built a pyramid to the Sun. "You were my pyramid," she whispered. "All of you.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#2. We have to make a human pyramid displaying the foundations of the Catholic Church and the most frightening aspect, according to Brother Louis, is that Thomas Mackee is holding up the pyramid which makes the whole future of the church incredibly shaky.

Melina Marchetta

#3. He would come to school balancing his night's dreams like an acrobat bearing a human pyramid on his shoulders.

Howard Jacobson

#4. Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something
constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid ... ?

Tom Stoppard

#5. I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.

Mitch Hedberg

#6. She mistrusted the periods of quiet that are essential to true growth. Desiring

E. M. Forster

#7. The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.

Rod Coronado

#8. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Frank Moore Colby

#9. Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.

Brian Williams

#10. It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Boris Johnson

#11. No man had ever offered me his heart. In three hours, one man offered me his life.

Dannika Dark

#12. "We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."

John Hickenlooper

#13. In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.

Lloyd Alexander

#14. You always knew where you stood with Quezovercoatl. It was generally with a lot of people on top of a great stepped pyramid with someone in an elegant feathered headdress chipping an exquisite obsidian knife for your very own personal use.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Stop a drunk driver and you stop a murderer - even if he hasn't killed anyone yet. In all the alternate universes, the odds are he's already killed - and will kill again.

Jarod Kintz

#16. A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Lois Wyse

#17. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

Steven Spielberg

#19. No longer does human life rise from the earth like a pyramid, broadly and considerately founded upon its own sources. Now it scatters itself out in a reckless horizontal sprawl, like a disorderly city whose suburbs and pavements destroy the fields.

Wendell Berry

#20. But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe ... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

Francis Bacon

#21. The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air ... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

Philip Pullman

#22. Sooner or later, if left unaddressed, this natural human tendency will undermine the entire CPC pyramid like a chamber of magma lying beneath a mammoth volcano.

Patrick Mendis

#23. Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas More

#24. One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Tony Kushner

#25. Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Cornelia Funke

#26. Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.
For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple,
we are higher than human race in the food chain.

Toba Beta