America Quotes
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.Muammar Qaddafi
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.Woodrow Wilson
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.Geoffrey Cottrell
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Reubin Askew
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.Bob Dylan
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.Tony Blai
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.Allen Ginsberg
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book - Of - The - Month - Club.Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.Clare Booth Luce
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.George Will
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.Van Wyck Brooks
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.Ronald Reagan
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.Huey Long
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.Ernest Dimnet
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.Jim Hightowe
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.Carl Sandburg
