Reverence Quotes

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. - Albert Camus

When I went to pick him up I was astounded by how much respect and reverence everyone seemed to have for him. - Dave Scott

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas. - Jonathan Swift

We were both very, very struck with the sensitivity and reverence with which the men and women on board that ship are treating those remains. - Louis Freeh

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs. - William Makepeace Thackeray

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things the teacher of all truth. - Charles Kingsley

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent. - Mark Twain

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us. - Mark Twain