Quotes About Respect

There are no small lives, there are no small stories, there are no small people.

We owe uniqueness to our dead at the very least

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another—until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

On the bright side, Percy said, both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

He carried so much sadness and loneliness, so much heartache. Yet he put his mission first. He persevered. Reyna respected that. She understood that. She'd never been a touchy-feely person, but she had the strangest desire to drape her cloak over Nico's shoulders and tuck him in. She mentally chided herself. He was a comrade, not her little brother. He wouldn't appreciate the gesture.

He scowled at Jason. And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading. She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, Here, sweetheart. Let me get that. Zoe recoiled. Her eyes flashed murderously. Brother, Artemis chided. You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

Annabeth frowned. Percy's sword is a she? Jack laughed. Well, duh . Percy studied Riptide, though I could've told him from experience it was almost impossible to tell a sword's gender by looking at it. I don't know, he said. Are you sure -? Percy, said Alex. Respect the gender. Okay, fine, he said. It's just kinda strange that I never knew. On the other hand, Annabeth said, you didn't know the pen could write until last year. That's low, Wise Girl.

I should've been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!

I'd come to respect the bag.

I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it's polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

Most of the time, Alex identified as female, but today he was definitely male. Sometimes I slipped up and used the wrong pronouns for him/ her, so Alex liked to return the favor by teasing me mercilessly. Because friendship.

I'm a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.

Imitation is flattery

Meg looked at me with something resembling respect. "What did you do to them?" "Nothing," I said. "Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff.

Thanks for everything." "As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have. "Stay sharp," Carter told him.

My son. Hades tone was almost gentle. Whatever happens, you have earned my respect. You brought honor to our house when we stood together against Kronos in Manhattan. You risked my wrath to help the Jackson boy, helping him to the River Styx, freeing him from my prison, pleading with me to raise the armies of Erebos to assist him. Never before have I been so harassed by one of my sons. Percy this and Percy that. I nearly blasted you to cinders.

Respect the gender.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

It hasn't been easy, you know. Having the dead for company. Knowing that I'll never be accepted by the living. Only the dead respects me, and they only do that out of fear.

He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. In my day, we used animal blood, the ghost mumbled. It's perfectly good enough. They can't taste the difference. I will treat them with respect, Nico said. At least let me keep the toy, the ghost said.