Revere Quotes

I’ve never rapped. I karaoke-d ‘Paul Revere’ from Beastie Boys when I was 15, 14 years old, but that’s it.

A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

I’ve been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it’s strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, ‘Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.’

I think women in Hollywood who don’t do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them… My plan is to never go there. I’m too vain to get plastic surgery because I don’t like how it looks, and I want to look my best.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

I revere the history of my party, most particularly the value it has always placed on the worth and dignity of the individual, and I will continue to work across the country for Republican candidates.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I revere football. I love the game. You don’t have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I’m in their presence.

To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

I revere my serials. But the reality, at the same time, is that it is difficult to get a break in films. I have been unceremoniously ousted from 20-25 films because I am a serial actor.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

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.

In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life – I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma‘s, and she would take me to the beach.

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?

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

I went into Xanadu going, ‘I really dislike this movie – let me try to make it something wonderful,’ but with ‘The Band Wagon,’ I really revere this movie. It’s really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I’m a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

People worship and revere Ganga as a mother, and then throw away flowers in a plastic bag into the same river.

I consider myself a product of Berry Gordy, but not a clone… He and I are always friends and colleagues, and I will always revere him as a mentor and boss. Though, of course, I’m always struggling for more equal footing.

Know not to revere human things too much.

I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 reviews from major newspapers and one review from Amazon, I still would feel a little weird: ‘What’s going on? Why aren’t people responding?’