#statue

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#i #men #much #rather #statue

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ↗

— Michelangelo

#discover #every #inside #over it #sculptor

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#case #church #delicate #endeavour #every

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. ↗

— Walter Scott

#melt #out #see #snow #statues

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#christian #climbing #gonna #i #kids

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#because #believed #could #even #faith

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. ↗

— Michelangelo

#marbles #more #statue #wastes

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#because #bill #bill gates #cure #gates

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. ↗

— Roger Stone

#committee #ever #nobody #statue

Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it. ↗

— Rosanna Leo

#sex #statue #love