Us Quotes

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

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.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

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.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.