Pedestal Quotes - Page 3

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Pedestals are always lonely.

It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.

Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

A lot of women were betting on me because there were so few role models and I let them down. They had put me on a pedestal. I maybe enjoyed being in that limelight, but I couldn't reverse what I had done.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.

The removal of Bill Cosby from his cultural pedestal seems pretty complete.

Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't (...) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt (...) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.