Honor Quotes - Page 40

• Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Rose, Pathways, Celestial

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• Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500 firefighters on the Wallow Fire and all of us in the firefighting community, our heartfelt condolences go out to their families and their co-workers. “If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor those who make it their professional business to put it out?

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Condolences, Fire, Florida

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• I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.

  Julius Hemphill

  Opportunity, Fire, Bears

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• I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great men of God like Brother Kenneth E. Hagin that we are able to see further into the Word of God today. Growing up, I learned a lot about faith from Brother Hagin who truly had a special revelation of faith from the Lord. I deeply honor and respect him for all that he has taught me.

  Joseph Prince

  Brother, Growing Up, Teaching

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• More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

  Aaron Huey

  Children, War, Iraq

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• You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

  Willard Libby

  Doing You, Individual, Made

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• We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

  Willard Libby

  Atoms, Done, Realization

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• A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Men, Spirit, Worship

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• Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.

  Clifton Anderson

  Eye, Past, Accomplishment

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• Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

  Ivan Reitman

  Children, Awards, Years

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• The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.

  Richard Alleine

  Legacy, Saint, Privilege

  Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine (2000). “Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace”, p.19, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.

  Israel Zolli

  Heart, Forever, Priests

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• The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Justice, Imagination, Curiosity

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• When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

  Edward Cocker

  Wings, Shining, Sun

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• Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own wisdom, to live according to your self-centered feelings, and to gratify the desires of your flesh. In contrast, God's will is for you to be an overwhelming conqueror in all of these tests for His honor and glory.

  John C. Broger

  Self, Feelings, Desire

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• If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

  Matthew Simpson

  Fear, Angel, Son

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Fun, Connections

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

  Nadia McCaffrey

  War, Lying, Son

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• Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Pride, Hands

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• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  Ira Hayes

  Hero, Men, Bravery

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• Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Riches, Prosperity, Possession

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• I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

  Bill Gates

  Graduation, Jobs, Dad

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

  Alfred Hershey

  Justice, Quality, Thank God

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• What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lost Friendship, Rogues, Littles

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• Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Doe, Way

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