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Us Quotes

What connects us, from global trade to family memory.

These quotes look at 'us' on very different scales, from once-hostile nations now trading with the world to a shared human truth that everyone carries some private struggle. For quotes about closeness between people, see Connection quotes.

I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine.

Quotes by Julie Plec

Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we're not conscious of it.

Quotes by Julian Treasure

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

Quotes by Julian Fellowes

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

Quotes by Julian Assange

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Quotes by Julian Baggini

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

Quotes by Julian Barnes

Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco.

Quotes by Julia Hartz

Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.

Quotes by Judith Viorst

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

Quotes by Judith Viorst

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Quotes by Joyce Banda

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Quotes by Joss Whedon

When I was 15 years old, my sister and I went on a trip to Europe. We went on scholarship because my mother didn't have the money to pay the full fare for the two of us, which ran into...

Quotes by Joy Reid

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Quotes by Joshua Micah Marshall

Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.

Quotes by Joshua Ostrander

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Quotes by Joshua Prager

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Quotes by Joshua A. Norton

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Quotes by Joshua Cohen

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us...

Quotes by Joshua Foer

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of "Us" quotes are on this page?
This collection gathers quotes where the word "us" ties people together in very different settings — from nations rejoining the global economy, to families sharing a home, to coworkers building something together. If you enjoy quotes about people coming together, the Relationship quotes page is worth a look too.
Is there a quote about world politics or the global economy?
Yes. One quote reflects on how Russia and China, once described as "communist-like adversaries," are now "participating now in the world with us" through trade. It's a reminder of how much international relationships can shift over time. For more on how people relate to one another, see the Connection quotes page.
Does the page include anything about personal struggles?
It does. One quote states, "All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with," acknowledging that everyone carries something they wrestle with privately. You'll find more on this kind of honesty in the Emotion quotes page.
Is there a quote about family history?
Yes — one quote recalls a grandmother who died in childbirth and a great-aunt who lived with the family, noting she "never knew how to read or write." It's a quiet look at how much has changed across generations. Quotes like this often connect to bigger questions of Identity.
Does any quote mention teamwork or employers?
Yes, one quote talks about wanting to be "the top employer of recent grads in the country," showing how "us" can also describe an organization and the people who make it up.

One entry turns personal and historical, recalling a great-aunt with bound feet who lived with the family and never learned to read. Readers can also browse Identity quotes for related themes, or Relationship quotes for closer bonds.