Quotes of: Reverent Keyword

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

Last Days

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Paul Tsongas

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Sextus Propertius

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Thomas Merton

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

L. Lionel Kendrick

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

Rick Perlstein

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

Francesca Annis

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry Bolingbroke

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

Winona LaDuke

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

Bill Williams

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Samuel Butler

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

Werner Heisenberg

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.

Mary Stuart Masterson

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

The Wind Among the Reeds 1899

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Sophocles

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

Matthew Bourne

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Mark Twain

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

Nancy Gibbs

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

Owen Glendower