American Quotes
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.
I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.
It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.
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There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.
We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.
Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!
