Americans Quotes

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Does it kill them? I don't want to be killing Americans whatsoever, Jeffrey.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

To Americans, either/or means both.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris, ' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'

The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Florida: God's waiting room.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.

Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.

That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.

And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.