Recognize Quotes

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.