Quotes About Shame

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

As my father always says, there's no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.