Our Quotes

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

When we're picking someone who we want to spend a lot of time with, even perhaps for the rest of our lives, we generally try to pick someone who likes to do the things we like to do.

God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events happening in our world right now that, to me, are what we call signs of the times.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

Our greatest ally in the Pakistan region of turmoil is the moderate Muslim majority, who we must reach out to and embrace if we ever are to have peace for our children.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.

Our daughter was the last in her class to get a cell phone and she had to earn it. She still doesn't have Instagram although she asks me for it every day.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

You become an artist to upset your family.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.