Us Quotes

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.