#revere

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#current #feeling #feels #history #irreverent

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branch #church #fairly #guy #middle-class

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#better #better chance #born #both #chance

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. ↗

— William Godwin

#human #owe #reverence #shape

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#know #learn #lies #life #never

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.' ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anyone #friends #gets #heard #hollywood

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#few #few people #irreverent #people #trust

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#doctors #especially #get #know #like