Dignified Quotes

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you.

You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down;

only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone.

Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity.

It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing;

health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity.

Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.