Quotes About Disowning

#1. Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.

Matt Taibbi

#2. The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

George Horace Lorimer

#3. Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#4. Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Homer

#5. This was the elasticity and permanence of parental love; everything vile about your children was to some degree something vile about yourself, and disowning your child for their failings could only compound your own.

Jennifer DuBois

#6. Self-denial is not denying to ourselves luxuries such as chocolates, cakes, cigarettes and cocktails (although it might include this); it is actually denying or disowning ourselves, renouncing our supposed right to go our own way.

John R.W. Stott

#7. As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

Julia Quinn

#9. When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

Lance Reddick

#10. I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government.

Kathleen Wynne

#11. This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.

Marilyn Vancil

#12. Healing begins with owing your scars & disowning that which caused them

Shilpa Menon

#13. There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Howard Aiken

#14. I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.

Burning Spear

#15. The God of Thunder has

Lois Lowry

#16. Big results require big ambitions. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

Bob Proctor

#17. Translation, an archaic way of silencing, marginalizing or disowning other people's originality, must come to an end.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#18. I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.

Ketch Secor

#19. I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Sue Townsend

#20. Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

Sharon Salzberg

#21. People exiled in past and disowning present may build wealth but not future in life

Anuj

#22. She was breathing shallowly, fast. She stared at some central point on my face, not quite my eyes. "This is how I raised you? To make fuckin' threats about disowning me?"
"No," I said quietly. "This is how I raised me.

Leah Raeder

#23. How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Khalil Gibran

#24. Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

Nathaniel Branden

#25. Find freedom in knowing that your human creativity is an echo intended to inspire worship of your Creator.
And then, create freely to your heart's delight.

Jen Wilkin

#26. If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Zora Neale Hurston