Top Reverence Quotes
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
William Godwin
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes 
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
Paul Tsongas
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
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Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
Jonny Greenwood
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Henry Ellis
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall
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Popular Reverence Authors
Henry David ThoreauSamuel Butler Plato Aristotle SophoclesAlbert CamusEric HofferJohn RuskinE. M. ForsterAlbert SchweitzerFrank Lloyd WrightCalvin CoolidgeThomas MannDesiderius Erasmus Socrates
William GodwinThomas HobbesJohn AdamsHenry EllisThomas MertonColin GreenwoodMax von SydowJohn MiltonPaul Tsongas PythagorasFranz SchubertSwami VivekanandaEstelle ParsonsWilliam O. DouglasJonny Greenwood
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