Our Quotes

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

Be true to your old dreams so that our world will not lose hope.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Treat people you do business with as if they were a part of your family.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams