A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. — Gloria Steinem
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. — Anna Quindlen
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm. — Lao Tzu
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Aurelius
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. — Friedrich Nietzsche
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. — Michel de Montaigne
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. — Adam Sedgwick
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. — Archimedes
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Hassan Fathy
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet. — Lao Tzu
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. — Montesquieu
Short Pedestal Quotes
Anyone that has me on too high of a pedestal should see me fumbling around with git. — John Carmack
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. — Indra Devi
I like to literally put women on a pedestal — Vivienne Westwood
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. — Bella Abzug
Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance. — Rob Halford
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few. — Honore Daumier
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Lec
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Pedestal Image Quotes
Putting Someone On A Pedestal Quotes
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally. — Teresa Mummert
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. — Jodi Picoult
Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels — Jill Shalvis
Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal. — Kevin Drew
The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away. — Marketa Irglova
High Pedestal Quotes
Whenever we consider an investment, we think just as much or more about what can go wrong as about what can go right, and we put the avoidance of losses on a high pedestal. — Howard Marks
Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you. — Mark McGrath
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. — Naomi Campbell
I
believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
her dress. — Steve Martin
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. — Eric Davis
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal. — Vivienne Westwood
I don't think as highly of myself as some people make me out to be. I am so far from arrogant, because I have been through enough to know that everything can go away in a moment. You know, I really don't understand why anyone would want to put me on a pedestal. — Michael Ealy
Put You On A Pedestal Quotes
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. — Avril Lavigne
I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life. — Assata Shakur
When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down. — James Dobson
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. — George Bernard Shaw
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. — Margaret Atwood
I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal. — Julianne Hough
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it. — Tommy Rettig
If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack! — Arielle Ford
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 — Madonna Ciccone
I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off. — Megan Fox
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. — Louis Farrakhan
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. — William J. Brennan
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. — Etienne de La Boetie
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? — Washington Irving
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! — Billy Ray Cyrus
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. — Stephen Jay Gould
I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour per day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that. — Andrej Karpathy
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. — Elbert Hubbard
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. — Paul Washer
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. — Althea Gibson
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. — J. C. Ryle
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes. — Bette Midler
I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that. — Barry Sanders
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled. — Misty May-Treanor
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. — Shane Dawson
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. — Arthur Helps
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 — Albert C. Barnes
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. — Camille Anna Paglia
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like. — Ichiro Suzuki
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human. — Linda D. Thompson
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. — Camille Paglia
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. — Barbara Ehrenreich
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. — Al Pacino
In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time. — Hank Aaron
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. — Tupac Shakur
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. — Frank Herbert
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. — Jim Carrey
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