(351 quotes found)
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort”
Christopher Morley
“We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.”
David Letterman
“Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.”
“We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.”
Senator John Kerry
“But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere.”
John Donne
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“We built it, we paid for it, it's ours, and we're going to keep it.”
Ronald Reagan
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo