Quotes About American

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

Here lies a very successful man, who spontaneously gave up his profession to devote himself to endangered species. He did not take much care of himself so he killed himself. However, what he neglected to consider was that he himself was an endangered species as well: The Handsome American. (Wilder)

One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words nasty and objectionable.

Awards are the only currency Amercian writing has to describe a writer's work.

Why? Oh, Holy Cow!" I groaned. "Please not to use these ridiculous expressions," he exploded in exasperation. "I have never heard any other Americans use them except those—what do you call them—those cartoon animals. Mickey Mouse." "Micky Mice," I said firmly.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

In American mah jongg there are five different categories of tiles: Suit tiles, Dragon tiles, Wind tiles, Flower tiles, and Joker tiles—152 tiles in all.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

It was the flexibility, the originality, and the independence of thought—combined, of course, with our vast resources—that made American business grow so rapidly. If the seeds of growth are made sterile, if men become passive followers instead of developing qualities of leadership—and courage—we may find someday that our way of life has been superseded.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

Isabel's friend Henrietta showed up, wanting Isabel to marry a square-jawed American who charismatically ran his father's cotton factory.

What makes an American…is not the name or the blood or even the place of birth, but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for.

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.