Peter Davison Quotes

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Proud

• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Done
  • Proud

• I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Proud
  • Deep
  • Roots

• When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Proud

• I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Time
  • Love
  • Day

• My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Deep

• Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • You
  • Proud
  • First

• We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Change
  • Proud

• I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Work
  • Proud
  • How Far

• Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Proud
  • Election

• Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Government

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

• How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Proud

• I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.

  

  Delroy Lindo
  • People
  • Life
  • Proud

• Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Proud
  • Skiing

• I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • American
  • Man
  • Proud

• The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Book
  • Tone

• I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Proud