American Life Quotes

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American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

Race has no place in American life or law.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

There are no second acts in American lives.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.