Family Pride Quotes

#1. There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

Henry Adams

#2. I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#3. My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

William Gilbert

#4. What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

Nick Cave

#6. My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Maya Angelou

#7. A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one,
if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

Florence Nightingale

#8. It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

Christian Bale

#10. God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay for him to be in my family with my son's life. That's Love folks. That is mega off the charts love!!!

John Piper

#11. It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that I didn't even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.

Julia Roberts

#12. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.

Waller R Newell

#13. A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

#14. 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

#15. Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard.

Chris Bent

#16. I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Monique Coleman

#17. Marina rolled her eyes. "Besides, I saw the way you were staring at each other during lunch. You tow are so completely Pride and Prejudice."
"You mean he'll scorn me for my family while convincing my sister's soul mate that he doesn't really love her?" I asked hopefully.

Robyn Schneider

#18. 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

#19. The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

#20. You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?
Sandre to Catriana

Guy Gavriel Kay

#21. The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

C.S. Lewis

#22. I love you, Josie, and I am devoted to making your life full of happiness and accomplishments, ensuring that you thrive to your fullest potential and that while you reach for the sky, you remain grounded by the love of our family and our home.

Kristen Proby

#23. Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Rosa Parks

#24. Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#25. My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

John Caudwell

#26. Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

Osamu Dazai

#27. The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

Mia Bloom

#28. Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what's ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.

Matt Barr

#29. Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

#30. I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.

Holly Black

#31. Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Kamila Shamsie

#32. I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

Troy Polamalu

#33. I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

George R R Martin

#34. The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

Criss Jami

#35. Children are no longer seen by many people as a blessing from God but as extensions of personal goals and pride. As a result, the family under humanism is in a state of crisis.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#36. Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

Kelly Thompson

#37. I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.

Luke Pasqualino

#38. My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family ...

Lucille Kallen

#39. It would be an existence rife with difficulties ... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

Khaled Hosseini

#40. It's not the hurt pride. It's the lack of love. It's gut wrenching. I mean, a family is an attempt to create a private world of trust in a storm and then it just all gets blown to shit and all the bits get scattered and lost. Everything falls apart.

Daniel Watkins

#41. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.

David Lipsky

#42. One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

Ezra Taft Benson

#43. I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

Aerin Lauder

#44. Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

John Zimmerman

#45. Sani's family lived in a well-kept double-wide in an otherwise less-than-spiff trailer park outside of Sawmill.

John Scalzi

#46. The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Criss Jami

#47. I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#48. The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Charles Caleb Colton

#49. He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

Reince Priebus

#50. A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. And they were my heroes.

Jim Butcher

#51. My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

Aeriel Miranda

#52. Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

Drew Barrymore

#53. I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

Ian Doescher