Top 1200 America Today Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that whatever is happening in the reality of America, where there is a murder rate worse than Lebanon's and where there is so much homelessness and poverty, still America will be a shorthand throughout the world for everything that is young and modern and free.

When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society.

Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

If you have a full understanding of what we’re up against and the leadership of your country doesn’t, well, hello. That’s life in America today.

It's the reason why so many people left Britain like I did in the mid 60s because Britain was exactly the same then as America is today, getting ready to redistribute social wealth and it didn't work. You've seen that in places like Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland where the entire country's business has collapsed, gone bankrupt. That's where America is heading.

In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

Trump is in the position to be the next president of the United States, given the mood in America today.

The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

As long as we see America and her wealth as something that we want, we will never leave Pharaoh. As God's hand touched the wealth of Pharaoh, it is now touching the wealth of America. As the Black man and woman become more awakened to the wicked machinations of government, the aim is the same today: We should never be free of their influence and power.

Two-thirds of the world's population is unbanked or underbanked. Imagine if you had all your bank accounts shut down today, if you had all your credit cards shut off today, Paypal, Venmo, etc. What would life be like? And that's a problem that most of the world faces if you're in Latin America, Africa or South East Asia.

Today I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

I don't want to judge America. I love America. God bless America. There are so many wonderful things about America. The fork! But we are a little behind on the bidet situation. I'm willing to say that. Hopefully we'll get our act together.

Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

Just for today, SMILE a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just for today, remember, while some may have it better than you do, there are others whom definitely have it worse than you! Just for today, just let go, just for today.

I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.