Top 396 Tribute Quotes & Sayings

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

'This Is My Rifle' is a kind of tribute to Al Di Meola.

I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.' This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!

'Anarchy' was more of a tribute album to my friend Peep.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

'Aashiq...' is my tribute to the '90s David Dhawan-Govinda era.

It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

'Hum-Tum' is my tribute to Kishor Kumar as he is my idol.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism.

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

When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not going to say no.

Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Nature always levies her tribute.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

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

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

A song that pays tribute to mothers was always on my bucket list.

For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

The author's tribute is heartfelt.

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

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

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

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.

Though "Veer-Zaara" is a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice in "Veer-Zaara"(2004). It's a very intense, humane and emotional story. "Veer-Zaara" (2004) is a humble tribute to my home in Punjab. It's my tribute to the one-ness of people on both sides of the border. Every religion preaches peace. Then why the bloodshed for the sake of religion? Why are we destroying each other?.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

I was actually in a Take That tribute band.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.