Hometown Pride Quotes & Sayings

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty. — Horace

Jesus, dude could suck the orange off a carrot. A big, long carrot. — K.A. Mitchell

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. — Timothy Leary

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. — Anthony Hecht

In Chicago (as in other cities across the United States), young black men are more likely to go to prison than to college. — Michelle Alexander

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle. — Marcus Aurelius

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans. — Andy Rooney

The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan