Quotes About Tribute

Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they're part of our story, and we of theirs.

The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.

To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.

To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish.

How long were you supposed to mourn, and what did they say? Make your life a tribute to the loved one.

In ten years, you'll be on a stamp / where anyone at all can lick you.

I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay a wreath of invisible money on her grave.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Ode to My Fountain Pen In Memoriam My

All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls for the tribute of a song. Happiness is its own gift, and needs no other. The Songcatchers

And the tombstone will never answer. Because the dead have only the voices we give to them.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.

His was the nation's sacrifice, And ours the priceless gain.

He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

keep telling her how beautiful she looks. Keep on saying that. How beautiful she looks. Lay it on thick. She won't believe you, she's too smart to fall for blarney, but it's what she wants to hear. It's the tribute you must always pay to great beauties when they grow old. Remember it's always the cameraman who grows old, never the star.

No people overcharged with tribute, is fit for empire.

Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.