Us Quotes

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

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.

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.