Us Quotes

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?