Pedestal Quotes

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.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

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.

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

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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