American Quotes

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

I am proud to stand with hardworking families all over Toledo, Ohio and America who should have the same chance that I did to share in the American dream, which should be big enough for everybody.

How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

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?

Guns are part of the American identity.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're lookin' at it

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.

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.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to.

If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny. Rene de Visme Williamson Quotes.

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

I was just trying to fit in to the stereotype American dream, exactly what my parents and everyone expected of me, i met someone who's -- who's awesome, you know, we got along good.

When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

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