America Quotes - page 6

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. (George Santayana)
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.' View quote
Vine Deloria Jr.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. View quote
Woody Allen
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. View quote
Bell hooks
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. View quote
Ringo Starr
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I was born in Europe and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. View quote
Bud Selig
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. View quote
E. E. Cummings
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. (Oscar Wilde)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. View quote
Walter Winchell
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. View quote
John Ashcroft
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. View quote
Jerry Falwell
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. View quote
Howard Dean
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. (Woodrow Wilson)
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America (9/11 attacks). There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
I love America. I love our freedom. And nowhere could a guy like me, a schlub like me have success with -- where would I get this freedom of speech? They don't allow this anywhere. View quote
Howard Stern
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. View quote
Herbert Hoover
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. View quote
W. C. Handy