pedestals

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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. Cormac McCarthy

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas. Julia Stiles

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there. Betty Grable