Quotes About Respect

Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all.

You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Adults do not talk to us—they give us directions. They issue orders without providing information.

It's not about choosing somebody over her. It's about making space for somebody along with her.

I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight.

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

you just can't mishandle creatures and expect success.

You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

a girl has got to be a daughter first. She have to learn that. And if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't never learn how to be a woman. I mean a real woman: a woman good enough for a child; good enough for a man - good enough even for the respect of other women.

That whites not only had no patent on Christianity; they were often its obstacle. That Jesus had been freed from white religion, and he wanted these kids to know that they did not have to beg for respect; it was already in them, and they needed only to display it.

Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.

they were believed and trusted, but most of all they were listened to.

You are worthy to be seen. You are worthy to be heard. You are worthy to be sat with, to be walked beside. Even in your quietest moments, you are worthy of witness.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem.

The two oldest fought in the First World War, the rest battled in the Second. They knew about Korea but not understanding what it was about didn't give it the respect—the seriousness—Frank thought it deserved. The veterans ranked battles and wars according to loss numbers: three thousand at this place, sixty thousand in the trenches, twelve thousand at another. The more killed, the braver the warriors, not the stupider the commanders.

They bowed their heads and listened obediently to Misner's beautifully put words and the tippy-tap steps of women who were nowhere in sight.

If he wanted the chair you were in, he stood there, silent, looking at the sitter until you got the message and got up.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.

As long as your feet are under my table, you'll do in this house what you are told.

Adults do not talk to us—they give us directions. They issue orders without providing information. When we trip and fall down they glance at us; if we cut or bruise ourselves, they ask us are we crazy. When we catch colds, they shake their heads in disgust at our lack of consideration.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband