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Quotes About Pride

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.
~ Steven Chu
So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.
~ Joely Richardson
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
~ Maya Angelou
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
~ Don Marquis
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
~ Jim Lehrer
He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.
~ Unknown
Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I am proud of my heritage and my family.
~ Brian Sandoval
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
~ Charles Caleb Colton
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
~ Plutarch
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
~ Gloria Steinem
Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.
~ Lionel Messi
I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.
~ Derek Jeter
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
~ Callum Keith Rennie
It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
~ Dev Patel
My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.
~ Jessica Walter
My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.
~ Kelly Reilly
Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.
~ Unknown
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .
~ Susan Lucci
None but a mule denies his family.
~ Moroccan proverb
I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee
~ Joe DiMaggio
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
~ Lillian Hellman
I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.
~ Mordecai Richler