Quotes About American

I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

If President Trump wants to actually prove he's a strong leader, he could start by championing American ideals even when they don't suit him personally.

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

Super Bowl Sunday is an American holiday at this point. Usually, I'll have people over, and it's pretty much just a chill day. Football is on all day.

American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

and knowing now who I was and where I was and knowing too that I had no longer to run for or from the Jack's and the Emerson's and the Bledsoe's and the Norton's...but only from their confusion and impatience and refusal to recognize the beautiful absurdity of their American identity...and mine...

evergreen philosophy of Idealism, springing up on American soil.

This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.

For every American who believes he's going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.

The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American." i think this quote means that pickles do not go on barbecue steaks. i agree with it because it represents Americans "He built an architecture of Bach, stone by exquisite stone, raising a music cathedral so vast." i think that this quote means that something can be built so elegantly. i disagree because there are always problems.

The American casualties continued to be staggering, in no small part because among the AEF's junior officers enthusiasm generally outran their experience.

maintain overseas cemeteries, Pershing became the first chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, serving from 1923 until his death in 1948.

Waving his arm over the carnage, the German remarked that the American attack that morning had been a "foolish affair." He himself had known for weeks that the war was coming to an end and had taken no unnecessary risks with the lives of his men.

Today, China alone holds more than $1 trillion in public and private American IOUs. Cumulative borrowing from abroad during the six years of the Bush administration amounts to some $5 trillion. Most likely these creditors will not call in their loans—if they ever did, there would be a global financial crisis.

Los intentos descarados de suprimir a algunos votantes y el fraude electoral desbocado, el sabotaje a la democracia, constituyen a su vez un caso aparte en la Administración actual. No es que estas cosas no se hicieran en el pasado —por desgracia, son casi inherentes a la tradición estadounidense—, sino que nunca se habían hecho de manera tan implacable, con tanta precisión y tan flagrantemente.

systematically murderous totalitarian system of all, conspired in their own death, was yet a fourth savant-idiot. The classic American savant-idiot, surely, was Susan Sontag. This is the Susan Sontag who called white civilization "the cancer of human history";

Men, he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.