Quotes About American

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

I will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.