“My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.” MadeEnoughHumorFunnyMotherFatherBloodFiguresProudIndianQuartersArithmeticCherokeeCherokee Indian Book:The Will Rogers scrapbook Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook
“Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.” DifferentStoriesWhiteWonderFiguresSweetFlowerGrewProudSummerBirdPraiseLaysRosePatternsDelightSmellLapLiliesHuePluckApril And Spring Book:The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright Source: The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright
“One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.” WorldLinesEnemyCenturyFiguresCreationProudPaidBraveUnionsWorkersGermanyLabourDividedNew WorldNaziCompetitorsMedalEmployersTwentieth CenturyVisionariesAssemblyCalendarsInnovatorsNazi GermanyVenerationBrave New WorldHuxleyAssembly Line Author:Stephen Fry
“I'm probably the most proud of "Mrs. Potato Head," because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn't tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn't figure it out.” WayWritingLongIdeasStoriesWantedSongFiguresProudOne TimePotatoes Author:Melanie Martinez
“[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.” ThinkingBigsHouseWinningSoundWhiteFiguresProudAchievementFolksBarackAfrican AmericanWhite HouseEmbarrassmentSymbolism Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.” FeelsFiguresProudHonorHumblePrizePhysicistTheoreticalNobelNobel Prize Author:Murray Gell-Mann