(398 quotes found)
“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.”
Voltaire
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
“There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth”
Luis Munoz-Marin
“A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile”
Sir Walter Scott
“Millions of fans enjoyed events at Veterans Stadium for many years. This marker is a tribute to all of them and to Philadelphia's great sports tradition. This is a wonderful way to honor Veterans Stadium.”
David Montgomery
“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.”
Winston Churchill
“We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever”
Thomas Jefferson
“It was a very beautiful. It is a beautiful combination because it matches up so well, that's a tribute to the animators.”
Tim Burton
“The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.”
J. William Fulbright
“It's almost shameful in a way when you're doing a tribute to somebody that you love and you're thinking how [you are] going to come off, but that's show business.”
Debby Boone