Reverence

Famous quotes containing the word reverence:

“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)

“It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshiped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Q. If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here?
A. Why do men go to zoos?”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)