Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams may not dissolve the ice, In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen, With proud people, in presence sad and wise; Set me in base, or yet in high degree, In the long night, or in the shortest day, In clear weather, or where mists thickest be, In lusty youth, or when my hairs be grey† Yours will I be, and with that only thought Comfort myself when that my hap is nought.

-Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'.

Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

-Thurber,James Grover
  'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', in the NewYorker,18 Mar.

She was more than ever proud of the position of the bungalow, so almost in the country.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  'A Flat Country Christmas'.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there issuch a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Speech in Philadelphia,10 May.

After yourdeathpeoplewill write of yourloveaffairs, but I shall say nothing, because I will remember how proud you were.

-Yeats, Georgie ne¤  e Hyde-Lees
Quoted in Richard Ellman A Long the Riverrun: Selected Essays (1988), p.253.

   Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

-Zidane, Zinedine
  Explaining his identityöhis father was a Berber from the Kabylie region of Algeria and Zidane grew up in the Marseille suburb of La Castellane. In the Observer, 4 Apr.