American Quotes

• I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Great
  • Age
  • English

• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • American
  • Thanks

• The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • Women
  • American

• If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • People
  • Why
  • Trust

• Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Time
  • Business
  • Single

• This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Up
  • American
  • Stop

• I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • English
  • Flourish

• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Song
  • Honest
  • Found

• Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • American
  • Library
  • Citizenship

• My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • People
  • Business
  • Learning

• I think that when it comes to issues of trade, I think it is important for us to be in favor of trade, but I also think it is important to make sure that we are putting in place the labor standards, the environmental standards, that are going to provide some of a fighting chance for American workers.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Fighting

• I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

  

  Johnny Bench
  • School
  • High
  • Practice

• I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • American
  • Like
  • Looking

• I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Responsibility

• During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Reality

• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Help

• A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

  

  Brendan Fraser
  • American
  • Criticism

• I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Music
  • American
  • Hero

• I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Hair

• It's a no-news day so we've been tied to the behavior of Latin American markets and U.S. indexes. Volume's really low.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Latin
  • Markets
  • Latin America

• I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters

  

  Man Ray
  • American
  • Nature

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