I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
America has 2. 2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.
The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.
Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.
There's nothing to be ashamed of here. Everyone's been with Carlito's sister!
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.