America Quotes

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

In America, sometimes people think all Latinos can be deported, and we can't. You know, I can't be deported.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

I don't believe in America, but I believe in people.

I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

America is like the greatest hit of the world.

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

America rules the world - by force.

If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

America is ripe for a service revolution.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.