Tribute Quotes

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

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

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

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

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.

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

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

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.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

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

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.