Humble Son Quotes

#1. Cardinal Wolsey, the butcher's son, is indeed the hero of "Henry VIII.," but his humble origin is only mentioned incidentally as something to be ashamed of.

William Shakespeare

#2. What's wrong?" "It's hard. It's too fucking hard. I don't know if this is going to work. We might as well cut our throats. Just cut our own throats." "You mustn't talk like that." "Yeah. Right.

Neil Gaiman

#3. This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Ian Thorpe

#4. I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

Mark Oliver Everett

#5. I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

Mark Morris

#6. My definition of a great manager is someone with whom you can make a connection no matter where you sit in the organization chart.

Michael Lopp

#7. Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.

Liane Moriarty

#8. I wanted to hate Jake, of course, but as I watched them together, smiling and fumbling all over each other, I didn't hate him. I wanted to be him, sure, but I tried to remember I was ostensibly on a date with someone else.

John Green

#9. You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must *do ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. Razzmatazz topped with hot fudge, strawberries, rainbow sprinkles, and whipped cream. It looked nasty, but you had to admire a guy secure enough to order sprinkles.

Colleen Coble

#11. I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

Raymond Chandler

#12. Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Douglas MacArthur

#13. It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father - it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all.

Andrew Murray

#14. My competition keeps me driven. My family and son and being home in Chicago keeps me humble, and my fans. They're the reason why I'm going hard and making sure everyone knows how to say my name.

Jeremih

#15. Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind.

Stephen Crane

#16. Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Dora Russell

#17. High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

Thomas Kinkade

#18. Yet, what the phenomenon is and how we think of it are two different things.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#19. It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

Fred Korematsu

#20. It's all just a lot to take in, okay? What if your mom came up to you and said, 'Oh, Cameron, by the way, your father is an elf from Santa's workshop and I'm an alien from outer space, so that makes you - "
"Something really messed up," he cut in.

Mindy Hayes

#21. As accomplished as Aboujaoude?" "He was accomplished and humble. You, my son, are ambitious. And proud. And your feet smell strongly of dung, if I am being perfectly honest.

Jeff Wheeler

#22. A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.

Andrew Murray

#23. The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Tom Vilsack