Quotes About America

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

Wings had become a formidable live band, in which Seiwell's fluid drumming and Henry's sleek lead playing were crucial. Paul was dying to tour Australia and America, huge markets for both the Beatles and himself, but he held off until Wings were ready. At the end of the British tour, they were. And then they were gone, just as he was about to record a hit album to take on tour.

I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

America why are your libraries full of tears?

our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry

America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb

There is a god dying in America already created in the imagination of men made palpable for adoration: there is an inner anterior image of divinity beckoning me out to pilgrimage

America this is quite serious

Money has reckoned the soul of America  Congress broken thru to the precipice of Eternity  the president built a War machine which will vomit and rear up Russia out of Kansas  The American Century betrayed by a mad Senate which no longer sleeps with its wife - Death to Van Gogh's Ear!

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?

It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.

the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death, and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America's naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set. America is this correct?

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

I'm with you in Rockland where we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets the United States that coughs all night and won't let us sleep

there may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall

A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.