We The People Quotes

I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.

Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it."

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it's a press stunt or something.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.