Tribute Quotes

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

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances are SECOND TO NONE !

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs 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.

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

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

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

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

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.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

This is a very insulting tribute But take it in good heart Congratulations Mom and Dad You've reached Silver together...apart Lots of love etc

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

I am her tribute. Survival is my gift to her.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

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

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.

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.

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.