Quotes About Tribute

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive.

We can't do much for the people we've lost, but we can remember them and we can read for them: the books they loved, and books we think they might have chosen. Maybe the reading can help us answer the questions they would have asked us if they were still here to ask them. Maybe the reading can help us figure out how to honor their lives and continue their legacies.

What do we owe the dead, our dead? Maybe it's first that we need to remember them.

Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nighTo learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont, lieA little nearer Spenser; to make roomFor Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

At seasons end the Yankees retired Gehrig's No. 4, making his the first retired number in baseball.

There are now little brass plaques on the ground outside this address. These are Stolpersteine. Tributes to the victims of the Holocaust. There are many of them in Berlin, especially in Charlottenburg. They are not easy to spot. You must walk with your head down, seeking memories between the cobblestones. In front of 15 Wielandstrasse, three names can be read. Paula, Albert, and Charlotte. But on the wall, there is only one commemorative plaque. The one for Charlotte Salomon.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...

what is the status of all this money continually being funneled into the U.S. treasury? Are these loans? Or is it tribute?

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

Dear Lady Gaga , thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart!

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

My God! So sad to hear about Amy Winehouse! My deepest condolences to her friends and family and fans. You will be missed Amy xoxox

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

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.

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."