Pedestal Quotes

Pedestal Quote of the day

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

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

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

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

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

I think celebrities are kind of put up on a pedestal and we don't really know much about them. I feel like my fans know every part of me because I've shown them.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

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

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

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

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

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.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

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.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

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

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting