America Quotes
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Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.
John Ridley
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The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.
Eric Metaxas
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In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
Lionel Shriver
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My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.
Amy Bloom
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Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
Luke Scott
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Today, America mourns the loss of a woman who changed our nation.
Dennis Hastert
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America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
David Frum
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I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.
Bill Rancic
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Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
John Prendergast
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We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
Alia Shawkat
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In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.
Lea Seydoux
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Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.
Eugene McCarthy
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The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
Nina Turner
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
D. H. Lawrence
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How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.
Keith Ellison
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From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
John Hoeven
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Win back America for God.
Katherine Harris
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O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.
Martin Amis
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson
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Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region… No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.
Ali Khamenei
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
Jessica Mitford
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As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
Andrew O'Hagan