American Quotes

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

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.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

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

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

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

I founded the American Red Cross.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.