Our Quotes

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.

Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.