Our Quotes

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.

History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.

We cannot afford to not stick and work together for the betterment of our community.

Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

The music was always the thing that has been in our world.

I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That's not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.

ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.

Marco [Rubio] has opposed at every point increased security - border security for those who come to our country.

If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

We control the content of our dreams.

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

No one can make us angry. It is our choice.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.