Ashamed Quotes

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey

Love, Deep, Young

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor

Nothing, Attention, Writer

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

Love, Anger, Hate

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
Mary J. Blige

Beautiful, Smart, School

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
Loretta Lynn

Music, Country, Tell

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.
Rupert Murdoch

Bad, Doubt, Sick

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
Elton John

Work, Fact, Taking

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.
Evan Davis

Mistakes, Nothing

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Gordon Ramsay

Change, Home, Dad

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley

Mind, Eyes, Brave

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
Anthony Trollope

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
John le Carre

Family, Mean, Down

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.
Tomas Transtromer

Human, Impossible, Storm

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski

Science, Nothing, Human

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.
Carnie Wilson

Work, Help, Important

I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all - whether it's fancy, cheap or, I'm ashamed to say, even if it's bad for the environment.
Beth Ditto

Love, Bad, Through

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Jesus, Christ, Pure

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.
Mike Wallace

Working, Keep, Fact

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet

History, True, Real

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
Jennifer Garner

Movies, Play, Television

I'm not ashamed of who I am.
Terry Bradshaw

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
Carrie Fisher

Bring, Ill, Surviving

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
Justin Timberlake

Nose, Admit, Pick

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
Ayelet Waldman

Power, Hurt, Find

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
Puff Daddy

Success, True, Become

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
Jacques Derrida

Time, School, Long

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.
Cat Deeley

Ambition, Almost, Drive

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.
Howard Stern

Good, Angry, Feeling

I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.
Khloe Kardashian

Amazing, Person, Two

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