Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Curtis Joseph

I think you always take pride in how you play.

Curtis Jackson

I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.

Confucius

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Cybill Shepherd

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

Anthony Perkins

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

Anthony Mackie

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

Angela Merkel

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

Amy Tan

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Amy Tan

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Anthea Turner

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

Anthony Bourdain

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Just to play, for me, is special. I take pride in playing. I know I can compete.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Kevin Garnett

I take a lot of pride in how I look,

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

We take a lot of pride in what we do here at Wadsworth.

We take a lot of pride in our defense,

Anton LaVey

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I always take pride in throwing touchdowns because that's not something a running back is supposed to be able to do.

Billy Graham

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

William Shakespeare

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

William Shakespeare

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

William Shakespeare

I can see his pride Peep through each part of him.

Becki Newton

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Bill Cowher

I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

Bill Cowher

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

Bill Cosby

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

Bertha von Suttner

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!