“"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.” MeanLawPayAtheismConcernAccountsRegardPositive AtheismEstablishmentReverenceGood WillHomageClausesEstablishment Clause Author:John Paul Stevens
“Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.” ShouldChildrenMotherMarriedRegardMotherhoodGrantedConventionsReverenceHonorableStandpointUnmarriedDishonorable Author:Ben Lindsey
“I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.” ThinkingWayComedyHealthyAuthorityRegardIncrediblesReverenceQuestioningPoliteHostility Author:Lorne Michaels
“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.” GivingLittlesPersonsActionTakenEventsPoetRegardContraryAdmireImmortalityHistorianReverenceOur ThoughtsAchillesAeneas Book:The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal' Source: The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'
“For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.” FeelingsBuildingHigherRegardArchitectReverenceDomainGardener Author:Gertrude Jekyll
“We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.” EyeChristianJesusChurchLordOughtRegardReverenceHonorableSacramentsBaptismOrdinances Book:Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.” IfsWealthPoorHellRegardRichesSupremeJustifyReverenceAttainmentFelicity Author:R. H. Tawney
“We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say No, we are not rolling over and No, this is not a corporate enterprise. This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.” BeliefSpeakCommunityJusticeDemocracyLandRegardCorporateEnterpriseReverenceRollingBehalfOur CommunitySpeaks OutCornerstonesRolling Over Author:Terry Tempest Williams