It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Brandon Young
When they're put back into popular culture and the media in ways that don't seem consistent with their sacredness, their holiness, that's where blasphemy occurs. The test of blasphemy is often not whether we as the consumers feel a T-shirt of an icon or a statue is misplaced or misused. The real test is what do members of that community of faith think?
Bob Hodgson
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
Anna Quindlen
We had given up hope of ever getting the statue back and put in an insurance claim and next day it was returned.
David Jennings
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
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
Orison Swett Marden
The great thing about some of these pieces is that they are all unique. The particular statue is mercury and this is made of lead.
Todd Zillweger
I looked at the religious gifts available to children. There wasn't much available. What do you give a kid - a rosary, a statue?
Teri O'toole
It's been totally patriotic. Anything from Uncle Sam to Betsy Ross to the Statue of Liberty has been real hot.
Gregg Kerns
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.
Fred Perry
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
You want to see some of the basics of the city, which aren't expensive at all, like the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, which you can see for free from the Staten Island Ferry. Places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a suggested donation fee so it can be as inexpensive as you like.
Nathan Lump
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
What we're doing is we're adding about three sentences to the state statue on scenic byways.
Jerry Elder
He always liked big things. It was characteristic of his collecting throughout. He enjoyed big pieces of furniture, big statues and big paintings. It was hard to sell him a small painting, small statue or even a chair.
Burton Fredericksen
The statue is complete and is being shipped (from the Czech Republic) even as we speak.
Chris Good
We are content to place a statue of Francis of Assisi in the middle of a birdbath and let the whole business of the saints go at that.
C. Kilmer Myers
It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?
Josephine Baker
This statue will serve as a reminder to all those who visit the Peace Garden of the love and hope for the peace my son always held in his heart. This sculpture and the Center that surrounds it will carry Tupac's message on down to our children's children.
Afeni Shakur
Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
Jean Sibelius
The next day, the Department of Homeland Security issues warnings of attacks against railroads nationwide, and against New York City landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Number two. Thursday, June 6, 2002.
Keith Olbermann
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius
This mixes patriotism, heroism and sex appeal. That covers a lot of bases. Of course some ladies would rather be a sexy Statue of Liberty.
John Majdoch
On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.
Michael Rosen
Last year, some wanted to go to Block Island and the Statue of Liberty.
Allison Hine
I fear that a nation that displays the biggest crime of its history as an elegant, chic statue will sometime have to be accused of shamelessness.
Michael Naumann
Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbolic of those sacrifices, ultimately a decision was made to honor no one in particular, but everyone who made the supreme sacrifice.
Frank Gribbon
This statue will serve as a reminder to all of those who visit the Peace Garden of Love and Hope, for peace is something my son always held in his heart. This sculpture and the Center that sorrounds it will carry Tupac's message on down to our children's children.
Afeni Shakur
Neon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,Beauty she was statue cold - there's blood upon her gown.
James Elroy Flecker
I was crushed because no one has a statue like we do. To come hear and see it in shambles, it's really depressing and makes school spirit go down.
Todd Donovan
I met Mary McLeod Bethune, and it took her 50 or 60 years to get a statue. Had he [Carter] erected a statue to his teachers, it would have been a whole other thing.
Judy Conte
The statue, however, when it was removed, revealed itself as a queen of Amenhotep III, whose name appears repeatedly on the statue's crown.
Betsy Bryan
Evidently when the statue was returned somebody thought they were going to get the reward, but it still hasn't been determined exactly who all was involved, ... There's been a lot of finger-pointing, but that doesn't make it credible. We're piecing it together and will probably make an arrest soon.
Donald Miller
Following the U.S. win in the 1999 Ryder Cup at Brookline, the caddies gave (U.S. captain) Ben Crenshaw a mini-replica of the statue, ... When I saw that, I made some phone calls to the Francis Ouimet Foundation. I got three. They're my ultimate treasure.
Peter Butler
It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.
Frank Deford
Probably the statue was meant to represent Hercules' ninth labor to retrieve the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.
Jane Thompson
So build a statue and oh build it high so the world can see then inscribe 'the world's greatest fool' and name it after me.
David Ruffin
He sold himself quite well. One lady thought he was a statue until he moved and then she screamed.
Nanette Westhof
The schooner Anne and Reuben was used to transport granite from Maine, and some of that helped build the base for the Statue of Liberty.
Clayton Allen
I love the Biblical subjects and the Italian art. My favorite artist I can say is Michelangelo. He was an unbelievable artist. He could handle any kind of statue made from stone and paint anything anywhere, like he did at the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It probably is the greatest artwork ever done.
Karl Hepner
We need this statue to tell all the children with disabilities and all their parents that anything is possible.
Jim Dickson
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
Craig Kilborn
[Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we should be in deep trouble. ... Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has even been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius
Here's 'we the people', and then here you find the new Statue of Liberty here and then again here at the bottom.
Tim Quinlan
I have to say that long lengths are actually the news of the season. Short skirts are already a classic look. They're here, but we have long skirts to the ankle and the prevailing shape is vertical and narrow, like a Giacometti statue.
Mario Bandiera
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.
Demophilus
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius
This statue is a glorified thing to have on my alma mater. It is here for the youth of America.
John Carlos
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
Dean Martin
People who go shopping on Columbus Boulevard look at the ship and wonder, 'What's that piece of junk?' I want them to know that it was as big as the Statue of Liberty. I want them to know what an American icon it was.
Tim Phillips
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