Teresa Mummert
Author
"The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally."
Pedestal quotes
Pedestal
83 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"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."
Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one."
Doc Watson
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"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."
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
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"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."
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"I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty."
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"Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies."
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"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."
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"Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself."
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"Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit."
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"Pedestals are always lonely."
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"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."
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"I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal."
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"The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way."
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"May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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"
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"Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands."
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"No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness."
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