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Statue Of Liberty Quotes

The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.
- Woody Allen

I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.
- Woody Allen

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
- David Antin

...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises.

- Josephine Baker

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
- Michael Bloomberg

...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 Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
- Viktor E Frankl

The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and eyes. With regard to the Native Americans she has Alzheimer's or mad cow disease and can't remember her past, and her blind eyes can't see the terrifying plight of most of the Indian tribes. Meanwhile she blows China and stomps Cuba to death, choosing to forget the Native cultures she has already destroyed.
- Jim Harrison

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
- Bob Hope

You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral!" "She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the best burrito of your life. Didn't you know?
- Barbara Kingsolver

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
- Robin Williams

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
- Jay Leno

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
- Daniel Libeskind

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

In some odd gush of patriotism, my mother had once vomited on the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, and a bust of Benjamin Franklin in a single summer, aborting our vacation and causing my father to swear off historical sites until the day he died.
- Jerry Stahl

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

It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.
- William T Vollmann

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

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