#revere

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#endings #evening #reverence #wonder #music

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #me #qualities #rare

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. ↗

— John Adams

#america #consider #design #earth #emancipation

Know not to revere human things too much. ↗

— Aeschylus

#human things #know #much #revere #things

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#earth #generations #must #reverence #sacredness

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? ↗

— Mos Def

#beauty #being #expression #guys #i

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#chasing #i #respected #revered #want

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#does #due #intellect #pay #reverence

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things. ↗

— Jim Costa

#being #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #great

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye. ↗

— Bob Costas

#blink #eye #i #irreverent #like