#statue

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#distinguished #france #french #lack #never

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#absolutely #against #billion #brought #budget

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. ↗

— Walter Scott

#melt #out #see #snow #statues

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. ↗

— Roger Stone

#committee #ever #nobody #statue

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

#dead #enough #every #hasten #leap

I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#art #aspirations #bizarre #funny #goals

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. ↗

— Howard Carter

#dawned #doorway #evidence #gradually #guardian

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#fact #pigeon #sometimes #statue #you

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #did #down

There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#horses #humor #statues #humor