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“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”

Has Beens Art Function Museums Pedestal Patron Clique Socialites

Author:Albert C. Barnes

“For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.”

Years Firsts Attitude Marriage Wife My Wife Pedestal Bad Attitude Years Of Marriage First Year Marriage

Author:Woody Allen

“Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.”

World Reason Grows Knowing Ignorance Pride Proud Not Knowing Be Proud Know Yourself Pedestal Inexperience

Author:J. C. Ryle

“There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

Long Romance Nations Sex Attitude Doubt Effects Practicals Discrimination No Doubt Unfortunate Cages Pedestal Paternalism Sex Discrimination

Author:William J. Brennan

“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.”

Want Successful Normal Convenience Normal Life Pedestal

Author:Althea Gibson

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

Moving Realizing Insult Insulting Pedestal

Author:Wilma Scott Heide

“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!”

Trying Persons Eye Beautiful Jesus Causes Sinner Beautiful Things Better Person Pedestal Being A Better Person Holier Than Thou

Author:Billy Ray Cyrus

“Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.”

Shoes Platforms Heels High Heels Pedestal Women's Beauty

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I like to literally put women on a pedestal”

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

People Thinking Player Pedestal

Author:Eric Davis

“Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.”

Men Force Sex Term Masters Absolutes Errors Slave Ease Knees Uncertain Pedestal

Author:Boyd Rice

“Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.”

Virtue Paid Homage Pedestal

Author:Frances Wright

“I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.”

Trying Looks I Can Felt Athlete Stuck Supposed To Be Nfl Adulthood Icons Pedestal Initiation Professional Athlete

Author:Ricky Williams

“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.”

Firsts Dancing Complaining Dirt Complaints Stunning Pedestal Tap Dancing

Author:Sharon Stone

“May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!”

May Heaven Friendship Protect Pedestal

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”

Has Beens Hands Fall Asks Freedom Break Support Pieces Authority Weight Liberation Fallen Resolve Tyrants Servitude Pedestal Enslavement Colossus

Author:Etienne de La Boetie

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

Men Women Words Of Wisdom Merit Capability Recognizing Outstanding Pedestal

Author:Huda Sha'arawi

“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.”

People Want Trying Looks Persons Motivational Nice Built Hurtful Pedestal Nice Person

Author:Avril Lavigne

“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.”

Thinking Writing Beautiful Leadership Leader Subjects Evidence Chapters Great Leader Pedestal

Author:Edward Tufte

“A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.”

Men Use Wisdom Strong Pedestal Cement

Author:Anna Quindlen

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

Thinking Men Spiritual Tolerance Openness Open Mind Open Minded Pedestal Liberality Broadmindedness

Author:Indra Devi

“When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.”

Humans Greatness Assuming Dimensions Lofty Pedestal

Author:Louise Colet

“There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.”

World Real Danger Hero Allowing Kicking Pedestal

Book:Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People

Source: Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People

“I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.”

Should Believe Looks Enough Humor Funny I Believe Dresses Look Up Pedestal

Author:Steve Martin

“When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.”

Ifs Men Ends Use Running Jesus Common Holy Fellows Abandoned Fellow Man Pedestal Holy Life Alone With God

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal”

People Feels Trying Loneliness Pedestal Rough Times

Author:John Frusciante

“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.”

Mother Pay Moral Careers Century Humorous Feminist Motherhood Ladders Being A Mom Pedestal Shrinking Brash

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Women Shapes Stones Bread Pedestal

Book:Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals

“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.”

Men Firsts Government Liberty Objects Phrases Sole Quotations Statues Pedestal Statue Of Liberty Freedom And Happiness Legitimate Government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?”

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“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.”

Ifs Persons Moving Rooms Type Behave Pedestal

Author:Margaret Atwood

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

Thinking Pedestal

Author:Naomi Campbell

“You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.”

Liberty Hell Written New York Remains Abandon Gates Idols Monument Harbors Monstrous Pedestal Inscriptions Gates Of Hell

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.”

Men Years Has Beens Night House Stars Space Known Mystery Objects Divine Empty Sacred West Architecture Surround Constructs Wraps Sanctuary Pedestal Empty Space Sacred Places

Author:Andre Malraux

“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”

Prison Pedestal Insidious

Book:UnSouled

Source: UnSouled

“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.”

Men Two Care Arms Ten Men And Women Commandments Straws Pedestal Ten Commandments

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

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

Parent Pleasure Generations Special Household Pedestal Cupboards

Book:The Victorian Age

Source: The Victorian Age

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

Supposed To Be Pedestal

Author:Barry Sanders

“You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.”

“People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.”

People Way Long Made Certain Mistake Like You Dresses Made A Mistake Pedestal

Author:Katherine Jenkins