Quotes About Recognition

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

Accept the gift and honor the giver.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

When I first came out with Blue, everyone compared me to Patsy Cline, which is the biggest honor, 'cause I've always looked up to her.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].

One honor won is a surety for more.

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.