Un American Quotes

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

We who lose our footing have lost our way.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

Alice is fictional. This isn't.

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good

Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.

If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay.

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.)

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey)

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.

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn

If the American president is going to rain, then the White House must be busy now of making clouds

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official.

There is not one Indian in the whole of this country who does not cringe in anguish and frustration because of these textbooks. There is not one Indian child who has not come home in shame and tears.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

Thus, Dr. Curry's claims that much of the fanfare and propaganda we now attribute to the Hitler Youth and the Nuremberg rallies actually originated with American customs, are definitely sound.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

Africans must change their mind and actions.The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

I was an American girl

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He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.

You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have

When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.

But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

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.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.