James K. Polk

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.

American President

Zach Galligan

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.

American Actor

John Paul Jones

America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.

American Soldier

Glenn Greenwald

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.

American Journalist

Len G. Murray

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

Scottish Lawyer

Malcolm Gladwell

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Canadian Author

Pranab Mukherjee

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Indian Statesman

Ronald Blythe

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

English Writer

Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

English Philosopher

George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

American Editor

Use 'venerate' to describe profound respect for someone's achievements or character.

Deep Admiration

'Venerate' is often used to describe respect towards influential historical figures.

Historical Figures

It's used to show admiration for traditions or legacies that have shaped a culture.

Cultural Legacy

'Venerate' in a religious context means to honor something with deep reverence, often in a ritualistic way.

Sacred Honor

While 'venerate' means deep respect in religion, it doesn't always mean worship, as in praying to a god.

Not Worship

In many cultures, to 'venerate' includes showing respect towards ancestors, as part of religious and cultural practice.

Ancestral Respect

 garden they know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook each of these cultures take down to downshift the Sardinians pray the seventh-day adventists pray the Okinawans have this ancestor veneration but when you're in a hurry or stressed out that triggers something called the

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 and they all tend to have a garden. They know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook. Each of these cultures take time to downshift. The Sardinians pray. The Seventh-Day Adventists pray. The Okinawans have this ancestor veneration.

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 I was educated by television. I think that I missed this, an ancestral record, a valuation of what I don't know, what I haven't seen. He is not a doubting Thomas. He believes, with veneration and reverence, in what his ancestors and the spirits taught him.

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 And you can go to any emergency room at any hospital, and you would see lying on gurneys young black and Latino men shot and dying. And I was doing funerals, but not of the venerated matriarchs and patriarchs who'd lived a long life

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 On its face value, that sounds pretty simple. However, that shift turned our farmers from a venerated class and a valued class in our society into a cost to be minimized. That shift made it so that my great-grandfather,

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 others in trees or on mountaintops. Still others were sunk in lakes, put out to sea, ritually cannibalized, or cremated. All of these practices, though some may seem strange today, were ways of venerating the dead.

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 and all of the things he did venerating the gods and keeping the cosmos going but they're characterizing this beginning um point of his reign where you know he is building the palace and he's

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 spreading the word at the magic Oriya visionaries and to a life of full-time veneration of Mary regards Charlie choosing me to do this work I had no doubts I had no lack of confidence the

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 Cyrus remained the model. This is a 16th century image to show you how widespread his veneration actually was. And Xenophon's book on Cyrus on how you ran a diverse society

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 more elaborate tomb a cubiculum a room frescoed from floor to ceiling we'll see this is clearly an important section of the cemetery for the wealthy and the venerated

Venerate

To respect or admire someone or something greatly.

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To honor or revere as a deity or something sacred.

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