America Quotes
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I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.
Meg Rosoff
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
Jonathan Kozol
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The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.
James Spithill
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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.
Pete Hoekstra
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We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of... Hawaii... to the beautiful sandy beaches of... Hawaii... America is our home.
Sarah Palin
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Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
Johann Most
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Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
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And any fan of mine who's a supporter of his Trump, I'm drawing in the sand a line, you're either for or against, and if you can't decide who you like more and you're split on who you should stand beside, I'll do it for it for you with this: Fuck you! The rest of America stand up. We love our military and we love our country, but we fucking hate Trump!
Eminem
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There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.
Martin Compston
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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.
Geoffrey Canada
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Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Lin Biao
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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
Walker Percy
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The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.
David Krumholtz
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When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.
Neal McDonough
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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill
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The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
J. Frank Dobie
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Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.
Alan Colmes
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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'
John Adams
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I will fight for America until the day I drop.
Don King
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Like many of my friends and associates, I am a life-long Democrat. We have a rock-solid commitment to supporting the political party that we so strongly believe offers the most promising vision of America: one that recognizes the proper role of government, the importance of compassion, and the value of diversity.
Alan Patricof
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They have one of the blue chip coaches in America. Somehow, I think Tom will have his guys competing for a Big Ten Championship again.
Dick Vitale
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America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
James A. Michener
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.
P. J. O'Rourke