“It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.”
“You only get one name, preserve and honor it.”
“You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”
“To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.”
“It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.”
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”