America Quotes
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
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The real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—had to differentiate themselves with violence.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
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Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.
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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
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The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
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I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
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There's not much radio in the UK, really. In America, you're in a car, factory, wherever, and you turn the dial on the radio, and can hear about a million stations. Hardly any in England.
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My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
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Race remains a significant challenge in America.
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When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
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Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.
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Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
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The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.
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I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.
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America is a lunatic asylum.
