Us Quotes

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

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.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.