The American Dream Quotes

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both [me and Donald Trump] saw American dream. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

The American Dream is still alive and well… it’s just no longer in the United States.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

I really have the American dream licked.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

The American Dream is about freedom.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

Welcome to Hollywood. Here you can be whatever you want! That's the secret of American success! Fake it till you make it!

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams.

I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

It's one of those things a person has to do

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

If America is to be strong in the future, Americans must see America as home, not divided by race or region. Build American jobs for the future and come together with compassion to solve problems.

The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.

The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.