Tribute Quotes

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. (Jonathan Swift)
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. View quote
J. William Fulbright
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. View quote
Rene Cassin
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear A simple race they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. View quote
Walter Scott
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. View quote
Fulton J. Sheen
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. View quote
Lorrie Fair
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead. View quote
Marty Meehan
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. View quote
Queen Elizabeth II
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much that seems so counter to what the world is like. Many of the things that I'm going to describe make so much more common sense than these notions that seem counter to what ones eyes see every day. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent. (David Lee Roth)
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. View quote
Thomas Gray
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death - the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel. View quote
Richard Matheson
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. View quote
Gene Tunney
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. View quote
George Steiner
At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues. View quote
Jacques Barzun
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands... View quote
Simon R. Green
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! View quote
John Piper
I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras. (Poppy Z. Brite)
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. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
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. View quote
Billie Burke
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent. View quote
Cesar Romero
Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows. View quote
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