America Quotes
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When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
Pierce Brosnan
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If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.
Kirk Cameron
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The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.
John Garamendi
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You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
Mark Z. Jacobson
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
John Cornyn
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.
Kevin Macdonald
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In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
Donald Trump
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I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
Arthur C. Brooks
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I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.
Muhammad Ali
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My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.
Colin Trevorrow
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If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
David Ignatius
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
Ellsworth Huntington
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I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous. I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school. Of the America that made America famous...and Of the people who just might understand That how together yes we can Create a country better than The one we have made of this land, We have a choice to make each man who dares to dream, reaching out his hand A prophet or just a crazy God damn Dreamer of a fool...
Harry Chapin
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The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
Amiri Baraka
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
M.I.A.
