Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andre Gide

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Anais Nin

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Andrew Young

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Christopher Moore

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

Anne Bronte

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

Angelina Jolie

Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.

David Stern

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

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.

Alexander Pope

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Alexander Pope

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.

Roger Milla

Don?t just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

This is about pride. This is about pride in your community, which is something we don't do a lot of in Yakima.

They've got a lot of pride in their running game. We've got a lot of pride in our running game.

They take pride in the way their school looks. There is no graffiti.

They take a lot of pride in being the Patriots, and we take a lot of pride in being the Crusaders.

Ron Gardenhire

It's not just about going out and bunting. It's about implanting things in their minds. This is what we have to do to win. You have to bunt. You have take pride in it. We want them to know we're very serious about this.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Bernie Sanders

The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

Cassandra Clare

He speaks of you only with the greatest pride, Will

Muriel Rukeyser

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

Kevin Garnett

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

Karl Marlantes

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

Jules Verne

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Mark Twain

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

Mark Twain

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny