Us Quotes

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.