Quotes About American

First-person American slave narratives should have ceased being written when the last American citizen born into institutionalized slavery died.

What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another. Researchers have been trying for years to determine the precise nature of Bush's ties to Fritz Thyssen, the wealthy German industrialist who played a crucial role in bankrolling Hitler, as revealed in his 1941 memoirs I Paid Hitler. Thyssen ultimately repudiated the Nazi dictator and was himself imprisoned.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

A striking symptom of the church's problems in the West today is the fact that in a country such as the United States, Christians are still the overwhelming majority of citizens, but the American way of life has moved far from the way of life of Jesus—which means simply that the Christians who are the majority are living a way of life closer to the world than to the way of Jesus. In a word, they are worldly and therefore incapable of shaping their culture.

African culture inspired African American culture, however African American culture inspires world culture!

I was disappointed with Niagara—most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Come up with me, American love.Kiss these secret stones with me.The torrential silver of the Urubambamakes the pollen fly to its golden cup.The hollow of the bindweed's maze,the petrified plant, the inflexible garland,soar above the silence of these mountain coffers.

Paul Andrew Hutton, director de la Western History Association, decía: «Crockett se ha vuelto parte de la autoidentificación como estadounidenses, y sugerir que no pereció en el verdadero estilo Hollywood era un puñetazo a sus frágiles psiques», y remataba diciendo que la versión heroica «ilustra el proceso de la fabricación comercial de un h

La película habría de filmarse en las vísperas de la elección de 1960, en medio de una ferviente fiebre anticomunista producida por el triunfo de la Revolución cubana y Wayne dejó clara su posición: quería una historia que pudiera «vender el ideal estadounidense a los países amenazados por la dominación comunista» y en el film se repite varias veces la frase «soportar la opresión o rendirse

La relación de la futura guerra de Texas con Hollywood fue siempre una relación amorosa. Sobre esta guerra se han filmado más películas y documentales que sobre cualquier otro hecho bélico de la futura leyenda estadounidense.

For some American moms, there's something morally righteous about committing to motherhood at the expense of their bodies. It's like giving yourself over to a higher cause.

Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history of unrepeatable national success, which 'spreads unlimited optimism, denigrates the past, and encourages the adoption of institutions which are in themselves destructive of the collective unity'.

I believe in democracy—in its indisputable achievements and its unfulfilled promise. I believe in American political institutions—in the genius inherent in their design and in the undeniable good they have done when put to their best use. I believe in the power of the human heart—in its capacity for truth and justice, love and forgiveness.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.

Most English speakers in Europe, I was discovering, had learned to speak British English rather than the American version.

Over the last decade, the standard criteria for relapse, or biochemical failure, after radiation has been the consensus definition of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

Distinctions between Virginians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.