Our Quotes

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

See! This our fathers did for us.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.

I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.