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"We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food."
"Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again."
"The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted."
"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
"I am proud to be an emotionalist."
"And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?"
"The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul."
"Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of."
"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
"I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor."
"Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her."
"As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble."
"Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control."
"I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from."
"Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them."
"I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane."
"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
"I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed."
"The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own."
"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it."
