Ours Quotes
1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors
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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call…
— Greil Marcus
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
— Werner Herzog
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We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft…
— Robert Cormier
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Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of…
— Spencer Bachus
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My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where…
— Julian Castro
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There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love…
— Tim DeKay
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The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives…
— Sherman Alexie
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
— Ringo Starr
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Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.
— Big Daddy Kane
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This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.
— Richard Louv
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Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.
— Puff Daddy
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Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions…
— Don Hewitt
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If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Been making love for hours and, baby, we're still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All…
— Barry White
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Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savageĀ“s sick…
— Mark Twain
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Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
— Franz Kafka
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I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.
— Sharon Creech
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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has…
— John Kufuor
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Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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