#statue

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#case #church #delicate #endeavour #every

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. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#because #believed #could #even #faith

Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it. ↗

— Rosanna Leo

#sex #statue #love

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

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#american #american dream #came #concrete #dream

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling. ↗

— Al Lopez

#built #delighted #feeling #great #great feeling

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#doctor #earthquake #first #honor #like

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#freedom #home #hope #immigration #inscription

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched