Proud Quotes

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Ernest Legouve
- Death
- Lifetime
- Vacancy
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift
- Proud
- Nations
- Hungry

Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.

Norval Morrisseau
- People
- Culture
- Artist
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

George Weinberg
- Proud
- Word
- Coined
I feel really proud that in the wake of such a disaster that people are donating. They are going to have such an impact on a lot of people.

Christopher Doyle
- People
- Impact
- Disaster
I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person.

John Lithgow
- Time
- Proud
- Weird
I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.

Ariana Reines
- Writing
- Bad
- Proud
I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
- Perfect
- Proud