Quotes About Tribute

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three methods whereby it may be held. The first is to destroy it; the second, to go and reside there in person; the third, to suffer it to live on under its own laws, subjecting it to a tribute, and entrusting its government to a few of the inhabitants who will keep the rest your friends

In memory of Muhammad Ali I will be knocking out David Haye in one round.

I definitely respect the men and women who came before me and how much those people gave to me musically.

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

Institutes should be named after these legendary artistes. Some institute should be named after Lata Mangeshkar.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

It is a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none.

Imponderable Sir, I presume from some if not all of your many reputations that you might prefer honest and convinced unbelief to the hypocritical and self-interested affectation of faith or the smoking tributes of bloody altars.

We have no means of understanding a fraction of the thought and science and philosophy and law that have gone to make that outside world. We simply accept it. We have grown up paying tribute to it, and that is all the most of us can do. We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything.

In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The tribute to Caesar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle.

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes. " Ave atque vale , Shadowhunter," he said.

That gold star in the window. The symbol for a lost son. It broke you down.

To look upon religion as the ultimate source of morality, and hence of a good society and a sound policy, is not demeaning to religion. On the contrary, it pays religion—and God—the great tribute of being essential to the welfare of mankind. And it does credit to man as well, who is deemed capable of subordinating his lower nature to his higher, of venerating and giving obeisance to something above himself.

Para comprender a un gran hombre, es preciso referirse, necesariamente, al día de su muerte.

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

...the tears come, and I cannot brush them away; I would not if I could, for they are the only tribute I can pay...

At the last moments of the universe, with eternal darkness converging from all sides, surely someone will arise and cry out: 'Hold back the end for a final moment, while I pay tribute to the gallant brewmasters who have provided us a pathway of golden glory down the fading corridors of time!' And then, is it not possible that a bright gap will appear in the dark, through which the brewmasters are allowed to proceed, to build a finer universe?

About this time the custom arose of referring to the Eastern Shore with capital letters, as if it were a special place; this tribute was never paid the western shore.

Bloodlust is the only real tribute the mediocre are capable of bringing to the extraordinary

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.

I came up with the name 'The Undefeated' the day Maya Angelou died. It took eight months to get the name approved.