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1 " Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off telling her the Pope is gay. "

― , No Good Deed (Kelly & Umber, #1)

2 " A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot "

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3 " One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate. If the grave wants to make you be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Graveyard Book

4 " Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history. "

― Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Advice for a Young Investigator

5 " ...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--'

'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'
...
Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over. "

― Neal Shusterman , The Schwa Was Here (Antsy Bonano, #1)

6 " As when, O lady mine,
With chiselled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows. "

― Michelangelo Buonarroti

7 " If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living! "

― Mehmet Murat ildan

8 " The Marquis sighed. " I thought it was just a legend," he said. " Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: " What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. " It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. " He had another. "

9 " It’s possible that the reason I've never experienced a ghostly presence is that my temporal lobes aren't wired for it. It could well be that the main difference between skeptics (Susan Blackmore notwithstanding) and believers is the neural structure they were born with. But the question still remains: Are these people whose EMF-influenced brains alert them to “presences” picking up something real that the rest of us can’t pick up, or are they hallucinating? Here again, we must end with the Big Shrug, a statue of which is being erected on the lawn outside my office. "

― Mary Roach , Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

10 " He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it. "

― John Connolly , The Book of Lost Things

11 " The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. "

― Jeffrey Eugenides , Middlesex

12 " Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Man's Search for Meaning

13 " No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. "

― Luis Valdez

14 " THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. " That's AGAINST THE RULES!" Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. " What are you?" he growled. " Shut up!" He pushed the statue over and turned back to Percy." Now I'm MAD!" Terminus shrieked. " I'm strangling you. Feel that? Those are my hands around your neck, you big bully. Get over here! I'm going to head-butt you so hard-- "

15 " Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near oneself, to honor his house with it, and to be able to have it imitated by those who delight in that art, and how the latter then strive with all industry to represent it in all their works; and seeing, on the other hand, that the most virtuous works the histories show us, which have been done by ancient kingdoms and republics, by kings, captains, citizens, legislators, and others who have labored for their fatherland, are rather admired than imitated—indeed they are so much shunned by everyone in every least thing that no sign of that ancient virtue remains with us—I can do no other than marvel and grieve… From this it arises that the infinite number who read [the histories] take pleasure in hearing of the variety of accidents contained within them without thinking of imitating them, judging that imitation is not only difficult but impossible—as if heaven, sun, elements, men had varied in motion, order, and power from what they were in antiquity. Wishing, therefore, to turn men from this error, I have judged it necessary to write on all those books of Titus Livy... "

― Niccolò Machiavelli , The Discourses

16 " She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. "

― Djuna Barnes

17 " Most people, when they are looking for a spouse, are looking for a finished statue when they should be looking for a wonderful block of marble. Not so you can create the kind of person you want, but rather because you see what kind of person Jesus is making. "

― Kathy Keller , The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

18 " The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible. "

― Michael Flynn , Eifelheim

19 " On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit. "

― Alex Shakar , The Savage Girl

20 " A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. "

― Anthony Burgess , A Clockwork Orange