If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.