Us Quotes

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.