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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. -- Bonnie Raitt
Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing. -- Shia LaBeouf
Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet. -- Ted Nugent
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. -- Tracy Chapman
I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great. -- Pharrell Williams
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West. -- Viktor Yushchenko
Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship. -- Sherry Argov
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. -- Pranab Mukherjee
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
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. -- Mac Thornberry
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. -- Dawn French
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered. -- Lee Greenwood
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered. -- Winona LaDuke
Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome. -- Nelson DeMille
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
I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead. -- Penny Pritzker
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players. -- Mike Piazza
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
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base. -- Jack Gleeson
The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys. -- Jay Baruchel
In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. -- Oliver North
There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa. -- Daryn Kagan
Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. -- Donald Wuerl
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played. -- Andre Previn
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience. -- Martin Filler
I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. -- Jonny Greenwood
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. -- Robin Sharma
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. -- Katharine Hepburn
Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe. -- Pam Grier
History wasn't precisely revered for its accuracy at the best of times. -- Gail Carriger
Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered. -- William J. Brennan
Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered. -- Susan Vreeland
When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal. -- Euphoria Godsent
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness -- Aeschylus
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism). -- Michael Pollan
Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered. -- Robin Sharma
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. -- Horace
I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered. -- Shane Gould
Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. -- Bill Williams
God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made. -- Max Lucado
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be. -- Christopher Paolini
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. -- Thomas Kinkade
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer. -- Dan Brown
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised. -- Albert Schweitzer
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. -- James Wolcott
Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored. -- Gary Lineker
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. -- Chinua Achebe
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester. -- Robert Robinson
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis? -- Robert Jensen
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I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated. -- Nicolas Roeg
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them. -- Neil Lowe
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
Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available. -- Andrew Carnegie
Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? -- Marcel Duchamp
According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended. -- Sadao Araki
I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I found out about Jonathan Winters' death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashian's divorce before she did. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others. -- Alan Ryan
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God." -- Robert Burns
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level. -- David Novak

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