American Quotes - page 8

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. (Paula Deen)
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. View quote
Peter Arnett
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies. View quote
Roland Emmerich
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. View quote
Simon Pegg
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. View quote
Cecil B. DeMille
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
American is the first democratic nation-state. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
American corporations hate to give away money. (Stephen Ambrose)
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. View quote
Tadao Ando
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market. View quote
Juan Manuel Santos
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. View quote
Brendan Fraser
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. View quote
Daniel Dennett
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism. View quote
James Woolsey
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people. View quote
James Heckman
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. (James Hillman)
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. View quote
Christopher Lasch
I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson