Quotes About American

It was deeply ironic that when McCarthy's self-serving campaign against the Red Menace was at its height, Soviet penetration of the American government was at its lowest ebb for almost thirty years.

Yankee Doodle went to town, He wore his striped trousies, He swore he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses.

The characteristic sweetness of much American cooking was also established during these years, as cooks relied more and more on the blandness and general acceptability of sugar as a flavoring.

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan. I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one. He Spread his hands wide. My deepest apologies. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

it just proved that I think like an American. Violence is dandy, but God forbid you show sex on stage.

I was sidhe enough that I didn't understand the American trait of being totally fascinated with sex, and totally uncomfortable with it...'You are totally comfortable with this line of questioning, aren't you Meredith?' he asked. 'I am not ashamed of anything I've done, Mr. Verducci. They Fey, outside of some in the Seelie court, see no shame in sex, as long as it's consentual...It's sex. There's nothing wrong with sex.

Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence.

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.

Wisdom of the Ages: "The Pope and Congress" It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in the Capitol has completely fallen through.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

NO AMERICAN CAN study the character and career of Abraham Lincoln without being carried away by sentimental emotions. We are always inclined to idealize that which we love, — a state of mind very unfavorable to the exercise of sober critical judgment.

For what was slavery in the American South, after all, but a system for transforming the labor of black bodies, via cotton plantations, into cloth?

The KiKongo language, spoken around the Congo River's mouth, is one of the African tongues whose traces linguists have found in the Gullah dialect spoken by black Americans today on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

When another American, Francis Ford Coppola, tried to put the blood lust of that war on film, where did he turn for the plot of his Apocalypse Now? To Joseph Conrad, who had seen it all, a century earlier, in the Congo.

American gang members talk about themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their idea of fate, the role of violence and revenge, in ways that are strangely like the Greeks in the Iliad.