America Quotes

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

America is a country that believes in redemption.

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost

Liberals Love America Like O.J. Loved Nicole

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.