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Quotes About America

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
~ Martin Amis
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
~ Martin Lawrence
Whenever I visit the United States, for example, one of the first things I notice is that no one ever touches one another, especially the men. In America, touch is perceived as sexual. At the same time, American culture overemphasizes sports, especially football, which is one of the few places where men are given permission to touch, slap, wrestle, tackle and hug one another.
~ Martin Lindstrom
In common with Russia, American children seldom play outdoors. Russia can use the excuse of cold weather, but in the United States, the daily torrent of bad news from televisions and smartphones leads most parents to believe that murder or abduction lies at the end of their driveways. In both countries, men escape. In Russia, men disappear on fishing boats weighed down with cases of vodka. In American, men go golfing. In
~ Martin Lindstrom
de-couple the animals themselves from the products on sale. This is a rule of thumb in the United States, but nothing you would ever see in Europe. Europeans have known extensive food shortages, and rationing, and Americans, fortunately, never have. When US tourists visit a marche or charcuterie in France, many are startled and even repulsed by the displays of meat and fowl
~ Martin Lindstrom
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.
~ Unknown
If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
~ Martin Scorsese
America's current economic decline must be halted, or else one day the crime that is rampant in the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. may develop into low intensity conflict by coalescing along racial, religious, social, and political lines, and run completely out of control
~ Martin Van Creveld
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.
~ Dwight D Eisenhower
God Bless America! For taking a day off their busy life style, & calling it Thanks Giving! Turning that day into a National Holiday, just to Say! Thank You Lord, for Blessing Us so Bountiful!
~ Unknown
The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It is ours. No Mexicans need apply.
~ Mary Gordon
I like America. I think it's pretty cool.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
It is not to be supposed that Frederick felt much sympathy with the free young Republic established in America. And if he sent a sword of honor to Washington in 1783, it was because he recognized the greatness of the man; and perhaps, too, because he felt a malicious pleasure in the humiliation of George III.! The
~ Unknown
The uncomfortable reality is, the diversity agenda isn't about honoring and cherishing all racial, ethnic and religious traditions. It's about apologizing for our Western, Judeo-Christian foundations while pretending not to notice that we're elevating in the eyes of our children the very cultures that hold America in disdain.
~ Unknown
In Developing Superior Work Teams, Dennis Kinlaw writes, "Two realities are shaping organizational life in America today. The first reality is that all organizations are faced with the same challenge: they will either produce consistently superior services and products, or they will soon not be producing much at all. The second reality is that superior teamwork and developing superior work teams have been demonstrated to be the only consistent method for producing superior goods and services.
~ Unknown
Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections.
~ Mat Johnson
The man-eating beast that roamed through Anicent China. Totetsu…I never would have guessed I'd find one living in America. Just a little while longer and he would have been mine. In order to obtain him, I would have given up an arm or two without hesitation.
~ Unknown
Hold that thought, ya tracksuit Dracula. You asked about The Avengers. Y'wanna know the best part about being an Avenger? Having Captain America around you all the time. He just– The guy just brings out the absolute best in people. You… want to be good when he's around. You really do. Ivan, look around you real quick. Because, right now? Captain America ain't here.
~ Matt Fraction
This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson
~ Matt Groening
the real reason he'd keep running into monsters was because he was black, and when you're black in America, there's always a monster. Sometimes it's Lovecraftian Elder Gods; sometimes it's the police, or the Klan, or the Registrar of Voters.
~ Unknown
America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on.
~ Matt Taibbi
Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops.
~ Matt Taibbi
Lots of people have remarked on the irony of this absurd caricature of a spoiled rich kid connecting so well with working-class America. But Trump does have something very much in common with everybody else. He watches TV. That's his primary experience with reality, and just like most of his voters, he doesn't realize that it's a distorted picture. If
~ Matt Taibbi
America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call.
~ Matt Taibbi