Us Quotes

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

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.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.