Quotes About American

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Un jour un journaliste américain trouverait un diminutif pour désigner les Bourgeois-Bohèmes ; il les baptiserait les « bobos ».

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge as representatives for all mankind.

Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

questions. You'll probably go out to the prison tomorrow." "Are you with Interpol or something?" "Or something," Tex replied. He didn't offer his name. "Can I call the American consul? Can

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I'm no expert on American politics.

How hollow would the charges of American imperialism be when these failed countries are and are seen to be transformed from states of terror to nations of prosperity, from governments of dictatorship to examples of democracy, from sources of instability to beacons of calm.

What always happens, in my experience, is that people always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

The Sioux, like all American Indians, are descendents of Asian nomads who crossed the thousand-mile Bering Land Bridge in various migrations between 16,500 and 5,000 BC.

In the spring of 1825, four years after Red Cloud's birth, Brigadier General Henry Atkinson led one of the earliest American military expeditions up the Missouri River. Atkinson, a decorated veteran of the War of 1812, departed St. Louis for the Yellowstone and was charged with securing treaties of "perpetual friendship" with as many of the Northern Plains tribes as possible.

The history of American journalism, then, is a history of change. To survive the change foisted on it by new delivery systems, journalism's delivery mechanisms must change.

All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump's attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn't pay us to be there, then we didn't want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

There are indeed millions of Christians in the United States, but most Americans who think that they are Christians truly are something else, intensely religious but devout in the American Religion, a faith that is old among us, and that comes in many guises and disguises, and that overdetermines much of our national life.

She wished she had paid more attention to them, but only one glance down a column of print was enough to tell her a familiar story: same people who were the Invisible Empire, who hated Catholics; ignorant, fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred per cent red-blooded Anglo-Saxons, her fellow Americans—trash.

I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing… is a lack of craftsmanship. It comes right down to this — the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea.