Ours Quotes

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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is… — Mark Strand
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and… — Paul Engle
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need. — Maureen Howard
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish… — Maurice Samuel
There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the… — Mariano Rajoy
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is… — Janet Suzman
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end… — John Ruskin
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an… — Nicholas Stern
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence. — George Herbert
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart. — Mary Anne Radmacher
By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the… — Maximus the Confessor
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S.… — Damian Marley
It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage… — Rollo May
To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously. — Paul Davies
Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we… — Jim Rohn
There are also a number of humans living up there (Canada), and in many ways they have a lifestyle quite similar to ours, including such… — Dave Barry
Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it. — Richard M. Nixon
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get… — Susan Sontag
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others… — Democritus
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or… — Max Tegmark
I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws… — Samuel J. Tilden
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future… — Lawrence Lessig
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and… — Larry Kramer
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. — Jacques Delille

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