Tribute Quotes

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

Gene Tunney

Fitness, Heart, Exercise

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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

Linus Torvalds

Use, Care, Want

"Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Thornton Wilder

Death, Gratitude, Grief

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As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

John M. McHugh

Memorial Day, War, America

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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy, Envy, Catholic

"Walk with God".

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Fulton J. Sheen

Four, Pay, Mark

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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

Thomas Jefferson

War, People, Cases

Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.11, Algora Publishing

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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

John Piper

Sex, Block, Kitchen

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He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Damon Runyon

Heart, America, Roger

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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Jean de La Fontaine

Evil, Journalism, Journalist

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An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Billie Burke

Moving, Careers, Tears

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The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Alfred P. Sloan

Jobs, Real, Creative

"Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction". Book by John Bourne, p. 11, 2000.

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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

George Steiner

Men, Ideas, Hegel

George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.53, Oxford University Press on Demand

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As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

Rene Cassin

War, Honor, Trying

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The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

Lorrie Fair

Games, Skills, World

"U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Hero Returns for Senior Year". Interview with Dave Lohse, www.goheels.com. August 12, 1999.

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This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Allen Iverson

Basketball, People, Feel Good

InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Walter Scott

Simple, Race, Toil

'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 4, ad fin.

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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Thurgood Marshall

Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

George Steiner

Heart, Love Is, Expression

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Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.

Anne Cassidy

Children, Thinking, Giving

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

Genius, Mediocrity, Ridicule

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The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

Dan Brown

Christian, Morning, Sunday

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... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Alfred P. Sloan

Jobs, Creative, Pay

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

Lee Strasberg

Actors

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