American Quotes
-
Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
-
I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
-
Justice will be servedAnd the battle will rageThis big dog will fightWhen you rattle his cage.And you'll be sorry that you messed withThe U.S. of A.'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass,It's the American way.
-
I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?
-
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
-
Georgia, like Ukraine and Moldova, is a sovereign state. If we accept, in practice, that Russia can alter borders by force, we signal to Moscow that it can violate international norms with impunity. We can hardly then complain if the Kremlin meddles in American elections, or orders murders on British soil.
-
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
-
Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.
-
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. And bands like Vampire Weekend.
-
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
-
If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.
-
I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.
-
We need to have law enforcement and the African-American community work together for the safety of everybody.
-
The American dream tells you that you'll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.
-
Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
-
George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
-
I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.
-
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
-
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
-
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
-
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
-
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
-
I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
-
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.
