American Life Quotes

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

Driving is boring, " Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.