American Quotes
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
John Quincy Adams
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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
David Wain
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I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
Cory Booker
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I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
Ari Graynor
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I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.
Derek Walcott
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There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
Joely Richardson
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
James Earl Jones
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We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
Prince Andrew
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
Kevin Young
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I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.
Van Jones
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I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
Matthew Arnold
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
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No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.
Phoebe Tonkin
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This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
Neville Marriner
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
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When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
Mary McCarthy
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There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.
Debra Granik
