Disgrace Quotes - Page 16

• An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

  Rose Henniker Heaton

  Marriage, Running, Intelligent

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• I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pride, Men, Proud

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 138, 1856.

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• You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

  Brian May

  Art, Media, Blood

  Song: We Will Rock You

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• Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.

  John McCain

  America, Today, Fixed

  McCain Campaign's Prepared Speech for Denver Town Hall Meeting with Question and Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2008.

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• Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, United States, Annoying

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Self, Musical Ability

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