Quotes with grace-proud

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  • Voltaire We are rarely proud when we are alone.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bailey Chase 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Robert Frost Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Brandi Chastain And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Saul Bellow Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bob Uecker Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Billy Dee Williams As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Folds Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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