Revere Quotes

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish.

It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process.

I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.

The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

The world is imprisoned in it's own activity, except where actions are performed as worship of God.

I know reverence sound far out, but think back to the best boss you've ever worked for or the best team you've ever worked on or the best subordinates you've ever worked with. Tell me; was there reverence in that situation?

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Know not to revere human things too much.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg.

They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.