Honored Quotes - Page 18

• The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fate, Names, Humanity

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Unhappy, Maid Of Honor, Kind

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey (1962). “Reader's digest condensed books”

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• This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!

  Edward Everett

  Children, Father, Blessing

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• Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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• Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

  Ouida

  Charity, Delicacy, Courtesy

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Noise, Fame

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• Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Rights, Childhood

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• What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Being A Mother, Mother's Day

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• Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faithful, Promise, Looks

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

  Brittany Murphy

  Individuality, Important, Messages

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• Matt 13:57. Then Jesus told them, 'A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.' The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Jesus, Nice

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• Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Christian, Poverty, Wealth

  Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2009). “The Jew of Malta”, p.30, Hackett Publishing

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• How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Crowds, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.265

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• I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

  Rainey Qualley

  Awards, Careers, Missing

  "Andie MacDowell’s Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe". www.accessonline.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I’m honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks!

  Jeff Coffin

  Children, Fun, Crazy

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• The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.175, Booklassic

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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• It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Angel, Heaven, Wish

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  Patrick Swayze

  Stupid, Hands, Talent

  "Patrick Swayze Joins Other Celebrities in Defending Mel Gibson", www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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• Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Young

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Arise, Small Things

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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• The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.

  Samuel Adams

  Eye, Army, Past

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions reflected this attitude. Even modern sayings, such as the Cheyenne statement that a people is not conquered until the hearts of the women are on the ground, express the Indians understanding that without the power of woman the people will not live, but with it, they will endure and prosper.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspiring, Attitude, Heart

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.172, Open Road Media

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• You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Alive

  Max Lucado (2012). “Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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