Quotes About Pedestals

#1. Pedestals aren't safe ... one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

Sanjo Jendayi

#2. I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

Lee Daniels

#3. If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

Samantha Bond

#4. I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

Zaha Hadid

#5. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

Stanislaw Lem

#6. Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

Honore Daumier

#7. I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

Richard C. Armitage

#8. Sometimes, I think ... people we put on pedestals ... they've got that much further to fall when you realize they're human.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#9. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

#10. The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Luc De Clapiers

#11. The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

Michael Musto

#12. High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners.

Anne Fadiman

#13. The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

Betty Grable

#14. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Jonathan Shapiro

#15. To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

Greg Carlson

#16. Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily

Maya Angelou

#17. 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

#18. Time and space are different in this realm," he explained. "Your body needs a chance to adjust." At the top of the staircase we entered a room with bronze helmets decoratively set on stone pedestals.

C. Gockel

#19. Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Neal Shusterman

#20. Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

William Ralph Inge

#21. Pedestals are always lonely.

Myrtle Reed

#22. Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#23. From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her.

Max Beerbohm

#24. Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.

Jeff Foster

#25. We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

Dean Devlin

#26. But the war proponents tried desperately to continue the glorification of war by praising anyone who had been sent off to war or even just put on a uniform. Troops and veterans were placed on pedestals as great heroes - warriors who had saved us from some imagined modern-day Hitler.

Ron Paul

#27. Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Antonio Machado

#28. In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

Cormac McCarthy

#29. Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

Julia Stiles

#30. Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez