Statues Quotes

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

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

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

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.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

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.

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

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

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

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