Tribute Quotes · Page 5

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

— Quincy Jones

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

— Bible

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

— Cam'ron

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this…

— Mike Portnoy

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Gena Showalter

Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we…

— Elizabeth Inchbald

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal…

— Stephen Hawking

I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a…

— Brian Posehn

Many have paid tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in the past and they will probably continue to do so in the…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

He really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater…

— Rachel Weisz

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go…

— Cristela Alonzo

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously…

— Jack Bruce

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is…

— Samuel Johnson

My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains…

— Melissa Rivers

Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it…

— Suzanne Collins

Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence,…

— David Josiah Brewer

Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first…

— David Edelstein

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It…

— Steven Weinberg

I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam…

— William J. Duiker

As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he…

— Leo Ryan

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

— Walter Bargen

“Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.”

— Bryant McGill

I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.

— Don Ameche

There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally.

— James Bobin

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John…

— Joel Edgerton

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

— Steve Forbert

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

— Dwight Yoakam

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

— Harper Lee

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

— Nanci Griffith

We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.

— Johnny Van Zant

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

— George Washington

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about…

— Shannon Alder

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

— Dan Hicks

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

— George Washington

I pay tribute to Theresa May for her sense of duty and her resilience.

— Nick Boles

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

— Azealia Banks