#pedestal

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#come #handy #monuments #pedestals #save

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#know #pedestal #place #praising #sky

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

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#confined #confined space #much #pedestal #prison

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #chasing #get #pedestal #people

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

#better #could #die #discovered #give

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. ↗

— Woody Allen

#pedestal #place #tended #under #wife

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down. ↗

— Megan Fox

#celebrity #down #going #high #how

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#pedestal #put #society #someone #teachers