Quotes About American

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.

keep coming back to that image of John Chapman floating down the Ohio River, snoozing alongside his mountain of apple seeds—seeds that held sleeping within them the apple's American future, the golden age to come. The barefoot crank knew something about how things stand between us and the plants, something we seem to have lost sight of in the two centuries since. He understood, I think, that our destinies on the river of natural history are twined.

Yet I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to speak in terms of an American paradox—that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.

And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

At the very least, it will endanger the stability of the international political order and the global trading networks upon which American prosperity rests;

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great.

How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished, nurtured and protected for all of time

Who won the 2004 World Series?" She shrugged, "The Yankees?" "The Yankees? And you claim to be an American?" He enjoyed rubbing it in after her attitude about Harrisburg. "It was the Red Sox. The year they broke the curse.

This particular wish—the desire to remain a child forever—strikes me as a defining aspect in American life right now: a collective sentiment that imposes itself over the neutrality of facts and context. This narrative is about how we wish the world worked out in contrast to the disappointment that everyday life offers us, and it helps us to shield ourselves from not only the chaos of reality but also from our own personal failures.

What identity is more fraught with self-delusion and unacknowledged wrongdoing than American citizenship?

The last great escape. I was done gambling, done betting on a ship that would never come in. I would cash in my chips while I was ahead. I didn't want to suffer the growing old, didn't want to wait until my memory went. It was all so tiresome. I would just go out in a blaze of glory before the parasites of sadness got at me and made me bitter. After that's the American way: take your own life before everything else takes it from you.