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Quotes About Honour

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
~ Annette Funicello
I got the honor of traveling some with Kerry Von Erich. He was as close to a rock star as I've ever seen. He had a presence that when he walked into a room, it was like Elvis walking into the room.
~ John Layfield
I wasn't around in the old days, but if you look at guys from the 70s, 80s and 90s, back then these guys were the kind of guys that if you walked up to them in a bar you would not go up to them and talk trash to.
~ Eli Drake
To wear the number 10 for your country is a very special thing. This was not only my dream, but the dream of every single Brazilian.
~ Oscar
Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
~ George Osborne
I know that, me being from Sudan and London, it's a big honour to have even made it to the NBA.
~ Luol Deng
We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
~ Tamzin Merchant
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
~ Saint Patrick
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'
~ John Sentamu
To hear my name sung at WHL & Wembley made me incredibly proud.
~ Mousa Dembele
The great Comrade Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to defend and honour Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea of and exploits in socialist rural construction and make UAWK organizations creditably perform their duties as organizations for ideological education.
~ Kim Jong-un
I think it would be a great honor to get another Super Bowl, but not just limited to that. Other events, sporting or otherwise, I think New Jersey has an enormous opportunity given our location and our natural resources, our passion generally and specifically for sports, I think we're a natural.
~ Phil Murphy
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
~ Walter Scott
Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foemen worthy of their steel.
~ Walter Scott
There are some causes sosacred as to carry with them an irresistible appeal to every virtuous bosom; and he needs but little power of eloquence, who defends the honour of his wife, his mother, or his country. I
~ Washington Irving
When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
~ Wayne Rooney
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
~ Werner Herzog
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
~ Wilfred Owen
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
~ Wilfred Owen
These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
~ Wilfred Owen
Gough had delivered more than ten thousand speeches to audiences estimated at more than nine million people. Among his listeners was a San Francisco surveyor who named one of the city's main thoroughfares in his honor—out of either a sense of gratitude or, possibly, irony.
~ Daniel Okrent
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
~ Danish Proverb
For to die with honour is far better than to live disgraced.
~ James Knowles
Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason and enchantment.
~ James Knowles