#statue

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. ↗

— Ed Koch

#afghanistan #also #being #buddha #clinton

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#carving #conspiracy #convenient #into #kind

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. ↗

— Don Young

#constitution #disservice #federal #federal government #few

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#i #jesus #jumped #off #rio

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#burn #cast #fingers #freedom #furnace

When my journal appears, many statues must come down. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#come #down #journal #many #must

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#children #could #discovered #get #got

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate