Us Quotes

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?