Disgrace Quotes

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.