Quotes About Pride

But a southern woman holds her head high and does not run from her problems, no matter if she's walking in tall cotton or deep manure She remembered Roxie's words.

anywhere on it. A southern woman's social dignity is determined by the way she keeps her Caddy clean.

I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would get the depressives, and they wouldn't even have to leave their beds - we'd just roll their beds out of their houses, and they could continue staring off miserably into space. And then for the manics, we'd have the manic marching band, with manics laughing and talking and shopping and fucking and making bad judgment calls.

He going feel like a fool and there don't be no man yet born who can deal with feeling like a damn fool.

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.

Spears said that pride many times exonerates a greater stupidity than a blank brain.

She didn't want to see the blow coming, but refused to take the coward's way. She raised her lashes, meeting his gaze with a steady one of her own, even though her knees threatened to buckle from fear. "You've made me very angry, Miss Constance," he said. "No one disrespects the name Lachlan. Not without paying a price." And then he did something she had not anticipated. He kissed her.

Mary May: Dr. Smith says nothing's broken. Celestine: No. If you don't count my heart, my pride and my complete belief in humanity.

Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.

It was the day I was going to take hold of my life. I would once and for all take back what was rightfully mine: my freedom, my dignity and my pride.

People don't change their minds that easily. They have too much pride. Eventually they have kids who see the world differently, and that's how real change happens. Old people die and the things they mistakenly thought were important die with them.

Don't shame him! Your father is very proud. You don't know this, but he graduated from the best college in Korea, the very top, and he doesn't need to talk about selling fruits and vegetables. It's below him. He only does it for you, Byong-ho, he does everything for you. Now go and keep him company...I would learn in subsequent years that he had been trained as an industrial engineer, and had actually completed a master's degree.

Can I help you up?" No," she said bitterly. "I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor." Bitch," I said, squatting to help her up.

She killed Lorena in a fight? Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.

God bless the American spectator.

The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

Well, if I'm not doing it for him, then I'm doing it for me, so I can feel proud.

I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever.

Being a lad is what I'm about.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I love Strapping Young Lad. I'm incredibly proud of that band; I'm incredibly proud of everything we did.

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

I feel really proud of myself for helping to put the ladies' game out there.