Un American Quotes

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)

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

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

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.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

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

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

I really have the American dream licked.

Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

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

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

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