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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.

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.

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

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.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

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.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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.

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

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

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

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.

It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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.