Us Quotes

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

It’s a cool thing to see Polynesians – there’s not too many of us, period – but especially doing well in American sports. It’s pretty cool.

There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

My Dad used to tell us: ‘En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos’ ‘In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.’

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.