logo

Quotes About Honoring

What doing baseball means to me is it's a real touchpoint with my late father. This is what he did for thirty years. I was fortunate to share the booth with my dad for four seasons in the 1990s, so every time I do a game, it's a way to honor him.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
Sometimes, honoring the memory of what we've lost is the only redemption we have.
~ Rue McClanahan
Sabbath keeping is the primary discipline that helps us live within the limits of our humanity and to honor God as our Creator. It is the key to a life lived in sync with the rhythms that God himself built into our world.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
Aligning oneself with a powerful aspect of reality, or deity, is one of the greatest acts to undergo in claiming innate power. Connecting with and honoring the gods is a way to unite with your Higher Self and the Divine.
~ S. Myers
To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish.
~ Margaret Atwood
what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
~ Margaret Mitchell
A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.
~ Fritjof Capra
Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders
~ Virat Kohli
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
~ Elie Wiesel
He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.
~ Scottie Pippen
The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of valued possessions with gold leaf, which says: We dishonor it if we pretend that it hadn't gotten broken. It says: We value this enough to repair it. So it is not denial or a cover-up. It is the opposite, an adornment of the break with gold leaf, which draws the cracks into greater prominence. The gold leaf becomes part of its beauty.
~ Anne Lamott
Richard grinned, very pleased with himself for having found a way to honor his mother, thwart his father, and serve God, while having a grand adventure at the same time.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Oh, sheez, what's Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How'd the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.
~ John Carlos
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row.
~ John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below.
~ John McCrae
Pray let us greet our host and the guest of honor, that I may receive my measure of scorn from each and we may be away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
But after he tells you how they died, I want you to remember how they lived(...)
~ Elizabeth Fama
This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not so glorify God by elevated admirations, or eloquent expressions, or pompous services for Him as when we aspire to a conversing with Him with unstained spirits, and live to Him in living like Him (S. Charnock).
~ Arthur W. Pink
Thus the state of Buddhahood depends On beings and on Buddhas equally. What kind of practice is it then That honors only Buddhas but not beings?
~ ??ntideva
Beloved-of-the-Gods speaks thus: Father and mother should be respected and so should elders, kindness to living beings should be made strong and the truth should be spoken. In these ways, the Dhamma should be promoted. Likewise, a teacher should be honored by his pupil and proper manners should be shown towards relations. This is an ancient rule that conduces to long life. Thus should one act.
~ Ashoka the Great
La tristeza no desaparece, pero la desesperación debe ser contenida, pues no honra al que ha partido.
~ Augusto Cury
The one who gives birth to you, the one who gets your Upanayan (Sacred Thread) ceremony performed, the one who gives you education, the one who gives you food and the one who protects you from all sort of dangers – these five persons deserve the status of your father
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
~ Jim Otto