Quotes About Pride

I love how professional sports unite a city and a group of people.

The people of Mississippi, black and white, and young and old, can be proud of a banner that puts our faith front and center. We can unite under it. We can move forward together.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Manchester United breathes football.

The proudest citizen of Aberdeen, Plymouth, Coleraine or Wrexham can also take huge pride in being part of the United Kingdom.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.

Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.

God bless the United States of America, and Roll Tide.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

I have every reason, despite the resentment and exasperation, to be proud. I have nothing better to be proud of than being proud of German unity.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I may now carry the sash of Miss Universe, but I'll forever be your Miss Philippines.

Being Miss Universe is much more than having a sash and a crown. It is about taking pride in my commitment to serving as an ambassador to my country - and to women everywhere.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

I take a lot of pride in beating guys like Kyle Dake or David Taylor or these guys who have been basically bred to do this from Day 1. The best camps, the best high schools, the best universities. I never had that. It's not necessary, but I never had any of the frills a lot of those guys had.

I grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, which has the proud distinction of being the home to two of the eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the state: South Carolina State University and Claflin University. When I was a kid riding around town with my grandfather, we often drove by the colleges.

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.