American Quotes
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In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.
Lydia Millet -
Millions of Americans recognize the right of private businesses to donate to any cause they choose; that if one doesn't want to patronize a chicken sandwich business, one can certainly buy fast food anywhere they want.
Mike Gallagher
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This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.
David W. Blight -
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
George Michael -
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
Michael McCaul -
Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.
William McKeen -
The danger of Americans being killed, the danger of divisiveness that would accrue from those developments ... are all too real. A superpower should not play that kind of role in a cauldron of trouble, because sooner or later we are going to get hurt.
Henry M. Jackson -
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
Lisa Bonet
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My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me.
Andrea Navedo -
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
Mike Nichols -
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.
Walter Truett Anderson -
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard -
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
Willard Scott -
I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
Liam Neeson
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None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
Michael Huffington -
I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.
Camila Mendes -
With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
Mitchell Hurwitz -
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
Ezra Stiles -
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.
Rick Atkinson -
Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
Michael Moriarty
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To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
Nuruddin Farah -
I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
Ben Lerner -
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Rick Perlstein -
I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.
Bowe Bergdahl