Quotes About American

The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.

Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.

The American girls, undaunted, maintained their natural warmth, and in their unrivalled sympathy there appeared genuine maternal feelings that did not alter for national differences, but that was feeble consolation in this profound sadness over the fact that "being a human being among other human beings" only ever happens in dreams of a perfect world.

In any other American city this size, the road would have been paved. But in Santa Fe, raw earth is as chic as raw fish. The wealthier locals like it especially in the winter, when they can hop into their four-wheel-drive vehicles and feel like cowboys as they go whizzing down the mudslides into town.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

75% to 90% of American trial lawyers are incompetent, dishonest, or both.

they all came out of the same quiet that haunted a lot of American homes in the fifties. Rock and roll was the thing God delivered to break up the silence.

Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."[21]

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Historian Daniel Boorstin once noted a shift in American values that had replaced the classic hero with the celebrity. "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image. . . . The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media." He added, darkly: "The very agency which first makes the celebrity in the long run inevitably destroys him. He will be destroyed, as he was made, by publicity.

It is, indeed, in this light that Capote's famous characterization of In Cold Blood as "a reflection on American life—this collision between the desperate, ruthless, wandering, savage part of American life, and the other, which is insular and safe," takes on its proper meaning.T

There is no doubt that the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 created the seedbed from which ISIS sprang. And there is also no doubt that the failure to leave a residual American force in Iraq in 2011, combined with the outbreak of civil war in Syria, allowed the group to flourish and spread on two sides of an increasingly meaningless border. To dismiss the group as "un-Islamic" or "not a state" is wishful thinking and, ultimately, counterproductive and dangerous.

Patience was not an American virtue.

But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.

The American Home Cook Book proposed cooking eels with a little parsley. Another suggested terrapin turtles boiled with salt.

All the rival presidential candidates called themselves Republicans, and each claimed to be the logical successor to the Jeffersonian heritage. Ironically, what the campaign produced was the breakup of the party and the traditions everyone honored. One-party government proved an evanescent phase in American history.

In the early American republic, the most significant challenge to the traditional assumption that the worth of human beings depended on their race, class, and gender came from the scriptural teachings that all are equal in the sight of God and all are one in Christ.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.