Quotes About Pride

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

I am very proud of my father and what he's accomplished. It is amazing.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of a senator of the United States.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.