Great American Quotes

Great American Quote of the day

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Losing is the great American sin.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

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 wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.