Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
Lech Walesa

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
Juliette G. Low

Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one.
Li Peng

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
David Ben Gurion

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
Joe Henderson

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
David Herbert Lawrence

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 citizenship.
Spencer Bachus

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
David Herbert Lawrence

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 settled on large sections of the population.
John Agyekum Kufuor

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
Frances Power Cobbe

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
John Gunther

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
Judith Guest

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Lew Wasserman