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Quotes About Honoring

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.
~ Cindy Sheehan
When you're with somebody as iconic as Mick Jagger or John Fogerty, I'm really aware that, in asking these guys to collaborate with me, I don't want to add a footnote to their career that's like, 'Shouldn't' have done that.' It's important to make sure that they're well represented.
~ Brad Paisley
If the Midnight Express were getting honored, I would be right there with it. I don't care if Satan or Saddam Hussein is going to honor the Midnight Express, they deserve it and I'll be up there with them.
~ Jim Cornette
I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.
~ Thomas Armstrong
He [Rabbi Menasha Levaartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.
~ Thomas Keneally
Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis.
~ Thomas Mann
Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.
~ Kathryn Miller Ridiman
But they shared in common a belief that the earth is a spiritual presence that must be honored, not mastered.
~ Kent Nerburn
On this day, we must tell the stories of those who fought and died in freedom's cause. We must tell their stories because those who've lost loved ones need to know that a grateful Nation will always remember. We must tell their stories so that our children and grandchildren will understand what our lives might have been like had it not been for their sacrifice.
~ bush george h w iii
The bottom line is that there is really only one good reason to get a restraining order in a case of wife abuse: the woman believes the man will honor it and leave her alone.
~ Gavin de Becker
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
~ George Frost Kennan
More than 80 percent of participants at these community forums indicated it was very important or extremely important to have their dignity respected, preferences honored, pain controlled, and not to leave family with debt.
~ Ira Byock
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it, Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it, Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it, Here comes the Flag!
~ Arthur Macy
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
~ John McCrae
We always remember the courage of the people of Kargil! We want to make Kargil among India's most developed districts.
~ Narendra Modi
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
~ Elie Wiesel
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.
~ Suzanne Collins
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~ George Crook
What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
~ Karin Slaughter
Affirmation 4 us: I appreciate myself, and I am honored to be me because I am a perfect extension of God.
~ Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
~ Frank Wedekind
Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.
~ Sam Brownback
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.
~ Patti Davis