Quotes About Respect

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.