Dignify Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on…
— James A. McDougall
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life.…
— Paulo Coelho
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Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
— Leonard Cohen
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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness…
— Bill Griffith
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Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but…
— Thomas Adams
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I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their…
— Malcolm X
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Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.
— Lucius Accius
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All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught…
— Paula Abdul
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Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a…
— Jonathan Hull
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There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their…
— Leonard Cohen
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
— Booker T. Washington
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness…
— Mary Oliver
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life.…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to…
— Paul Rand
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The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of…
— John Milius
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So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this bullshit with any…
— James Frey
Who Wrote These Dignify Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Dignify Quotes as follows: