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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

  Albert Camus

  Art, War, Men

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• Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Teacher

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.15, Universities Press

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• Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Yield, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

  John Leguizamo

  Liars, Hero, Thinking

  "John Leguizamo On Outsourcing, Obama and Mood Swings". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

  Michael Gira

  Song, People, Worry

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

  Jean Genet

  Success, Congratulations, Hero

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.

  Raymond Leo Burke

  Inspirational, Pro Life, Desire

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• Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Sorrow, Tears

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - Genesis”, p.501, Bible Study Books

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• I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.

  Simone Muench

  Thinking, Pay, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Evil, Journalism, Journalist

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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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