Quotes About America

But in 1977, the United States separated itself from every other government in history by vilifying meat and pushing grains, which were traditionally used to fatten cattle. Soon after, America's obesity rate shot up and hasn't stopped.

at that moment, old Joe Vigil was the only coach in America shivering in a freezing forest at four in the morning, waiting for a glimpse of a community-college science teacher and seven men in dresses.

What I didn't expect was that in this country, home of "Truth, Justice and the American way," hope would be determined by politics.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

Lebih baik pergi ke neraka tanpa Amerika daripada pergi ke sorga bersama dia - Manuel Quezon dari Filipina

Aku tidak meminta Amerika memberi kami uang. Mereka pasti ingat, kami tekah mengemis sepanjang hidup kami. Kami tidak akan melakukannya lagi. Tapi ada bantuan yang tidak berwujud uang, apa yang sebenarnya kuinginkan dari Amerika ialah persahabatan.

Seandainya Amerika dapat mengerti perasaan kami dan ketidaknyaman kami, dia akan menyadari bahwa lautan dollar takkan dapat merebut hati kami.

Amerika Serikat tidak bisa memandang rendah seorang pemimpin hanya karena dia orang Asia. Dan apa yang menjadi sebab orang kecil ini tidak mau lagi percaya kepada Amerika? Tidakkah karena rakyatnya merasa dihantam oleh intraversi dan subversi CIA?

In early-twenty-first-century America, when political debate is often confined to shouting on cable television or posting on Twitter, it's even more valuable to revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urged, even revolutionary.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

The combination of close personal relationships, coupled with threats of punishment, is the standard Chinese modus operandi. Beijing hoped to turn Australia into a 'second France', 'a western country that would dare to say "no" to America'.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

a phrase among the refugees for how they felt about America: Dankbar aber ungülcklich (thankful but unhappy).

I forgave them, having surmised – correctly, as it turned out – that America was merely first in achieving a level of average income so high that even the mentally underprivileged were able to travel, and that shortly all the other industrialised countries would start exporting idiots too.

It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.

Though she hadn't seen other countries, she was convinced that America was the best because of the equality of its people, "there being none so immensely rich as to lord it over us, neither any so abjectly poor as to suffer for the necessaries of life.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

La relación amigable con el gobierno se inició en 1922, cuando el presidente Warren G. Harding nos convocó a mí y a otros hombres de negocios a la Casa Blanca para ayudarlo a cumplir su promesa electoral de traer prosperidad a nuestra población poniendo «América en primer lugar».

They all met in Berlin, but left after Hitler became chancellor. How lovely to talk to true artists! Told them they could come to me for whatever they needed. Cellist suggested, with shy humour, one-way tickets to America + visas for all. I said they could consider it done. A looked

He had not come to the United States to prosper; revolting against the very idea of prosperity had been what had pushed him to America in the first place. Visions of gold-paved streets never lit up his dreams, and he was deaf to the gospel of thrift and industry; he preached, rather, that all property is theft. There was nothing in common between him and his more mercantile-minded compatriots, and he made sure to stress this at all times.