America Quotes

My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.

I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.