Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Marcel Proust

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Joseph Addison

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Khaled Hosseini

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

Henry David Thoreau

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Mahatma Gandhi

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Laurence Sterne

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Friedrich Schiller

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

George Herbert

The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.

George Herbert

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

George Herbert

Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.

Stephen Briggs

I don't see any reason why this interest in gold will go away.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Robert Jordan

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

Asafa Powell

I'll be there and we will win the relay gold for sure,

Warren Jones

I heard about Senior Olympics when I was 50. If we win (today), we'll play for gold or silver on Friday.

Asafa Powell

I'm really happy for the guys that they were able to get a gold medal.

Banksy

Keep your coins, I want change.