Pedestal Quotes

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

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.

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

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

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

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.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

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

It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

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 am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

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

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

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

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.