Amos Elon Quotes

They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.

Amos Elon

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• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Honor

• The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Dog

• It is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Americans
  • Statement

• Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

  

  Marian Burros
  • May
  • Drinking
  • Americans

• I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Action
  • Stop

• Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Liberty
  • Americans
  • Lions

• Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Americans
  • Cruel
  • Dollar

• In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Sense
  • Americans
  • Battle-born

• Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Think
  • Americans
  • Irish People

• It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Americans
  • Granted
  • Prudent

• I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... The Americans are great boilermakers.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Pressure
  • Americans
  • Globe

• Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Religion
  • Readers
  • Protestant

• Today the United States House has courageously stood up for basic fairness for LGBT Americans. T his is a tremendous day for our entire LGBT community.

  

  Chris Barron Spin Doctors
  • House
  • United States
  • Americans

• Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • System
  • Americans
  • Benefit

• For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Americans
  • Sport
  • Economic growth

• We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Spirit
  • Americans
  • Remains

• What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Ifs
  • Cleaning

• This is such a huge occasion for boxing, an iconic moment, with the response that we've seen, mainly good and some negative, I guarantee you with curiosity the whole world will be watching this fight.

  

  Eddie Hearn
  • Moment
  • Negative
  • Response

• They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.

  

  Amos Elon
  • Americans
  • Protestant
  • Grounding