America Quotes
America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.
The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.
Helping each other out, that's America.
The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.
To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.
Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts
I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.
How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?
The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.
We'll when he lets his guard down he's okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or you catch him just looking at something like... He's really looking for the beauty in it.
Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.
Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.
The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.
The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.
America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom.
If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."-Harry S. Truman
If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.
They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.
Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Shit, this woman's scary. I'm glad my manager's the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he's about as terrifying as a goldfish.
Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.
A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.
America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.
After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
In Russia you learn patience, " said Ivan. "In America you learn action.
You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.
America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.
America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.