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“Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.”

“Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!”

“I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.”

Years Firsts Book War Stars Mines Pride First Time My Family Prejudice Good Friend Zombie Festivals Oregon Trilogies Mashups

Author:Ian Doescher

“We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.”

Years Littles Ends America Courses Speak Nations Pride Band Glory Years Ago Deeds Admiration Odds

Author:Ronald Reagan

“In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.”

Years Long Soul Country Freedom Land Pride Honor Let Me Perseverance Shade Fades Vistas

Author:John Keats

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?”

“There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.”

Years Children Young Hate Dies Born Pride Prejudice Blue Wounds Adulthood Born Again

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.”

Years I Can Difficult Can Do Quality Roles Changed Pride Suspects Villain Oscars Versatility

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.”

Years Past Remember Pride Spite

Author:John Henry Newman

“At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”

Love Giving Years Young Girl Asks Women Numbers Careers Pride Lovers Comfort Sake Humble Command Esteem Maturity Thirty Glorious Thirty Years

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.”

Ifs Years Certain Pride Get Better Survived

Author:Yoko Ono

“I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.”

Years Modern Century Pride Prejudice Decades Unbelievable Jane Austen

Author:Julie Walters

“Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride... And a myriad suns have set and shone, since then upon the grave, Decreed by the King in Babylon, to her that had been his slave. The pride I trampled is now my scathe, for it tramples me again. The old remnant lasts like death for you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, and I break my heart in vain.”

World Years Heart Hard Christian Lasts Break Sun Gone Saws Pride Kings My Heart Slave Casts Karma Graves Broke Vain Bent Refrain Old World Remnants Breaking My Heart Babylon

Author:William Ernest Henley

“When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.”

Years Facts Three Challenges Cities Steps Taken Team Pride Type Proud Deserve Years Ago Determination Accepted Intense Nba Three Years Championship Bulls Nba Championships

Author:Doug Collins

“Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.”

“The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.”

Men Years Earth Turns Courses Wind Pride Shapes Seasons Temper Tides Unseen Power Man

Author:Hal Borland

“That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion, but he talks about Christ's emphasis on mercy instead of his emphasis on judgment. He talks about the lack of Christian charity and the pride that are afloat in our world these days in terms of making moral judgments on other people. That's really it for Willie. He's really a missionary.”

“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.”

People Years Firsts Shows Party Watches Television Tvs Pride Arms Drug Critics Starting Take Me Exes Dealer Dvds Baltimore Drug Dealers

Author:Hank Stuever

“We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but I do think there's going to be a bit of withdrawal.”

Thinking Years Firsts Said Bits Community Pride Eight Magazines African American Our Community Withdrawal First Lady Magazine Covers

Author:Ed Gordon

“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.”

Years Lasts Five Pride Twenties Five Years Underestimate Twenty Five

Author:Indira Gandhi

“To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.”

Years Firsts Shows Fun Pride Gay Paid Clubs New Year San Francisco New Years Eve Gay Pride Fun Things

Author:Queen Latifah

“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.”

Years Made Two Nations Simple Economy Military Greatness Pride Hundred Years Ago Size Height Tonight Patriotic Declaration Premises Skyscraper

Author:Barack Obama

“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”

People Years Children Truth America Joy Sea Taught Pride Continents Cheat Imaginative Pirate North America

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.”

Years Firsts Millions Pride Thousand Asking Regard

Author:Mary Balogh

“All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique”

Years Moments Song Fall Silence Wall Pride

Author:Catherine Fisher

“He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.”

Years Done Eye Faces Joy Spirit Quality Saws Sadness Effects Pride Ocean Blue Green Princess Arrogant Cheeks Lit Mischievous Indefinable Untamed

Author:Victoria Hanley

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.”

Years Looks Long I Can Book Used Night Masters Pride Mets Quiet Late Summer Winter Ill Generous Suspicion Fountain Drank Merciful Summer Days Draught Winter Night

Book:Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

“To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.”

Men Years Believe Looks Two Seems Animal Dog Pride Proud Universal Horse Noble Dumb Innocence Peculiar Loyal Rabbits Eagles Owl Forlorn Two Friends

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”

Thinking Feels Years Sometimes Moments Moving Grows Mistake Pride Roots Sight

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.”

Years Wells Long Two Fall Three Steps Fronts Pride Walking Raised Fifty Chins

Book:The Darkest Passion

Source: The Darkest Passion

“What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)