Top 1200 American Cities Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

Climate change is ravaging our cities - we can't just let that happen.

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

I just keep to myself and live in the country and visit the cities.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

I've spent a lot of time in Montreal, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

The pit bull is not a breed but a conglomeration of traits, and those traits are reshaping what we think of as the American dog, which is to say the American mutt.

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

Our primary threat today is ISIS. And because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement that would have allowed some American combat troops to remain in Iraq and secure the hard fought gains the American soldier had won by 2009, ISIS was able to be literally conjured up out of the desert, and it's overrun vast areas that the American soldier had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.

The American people, when had the chance, three times now have said "no" to Hillary Clinton. The Democrats did it in 2008. The Jill Stein recount this year and the American people in 2016. Three times in eight years the American people have looked at Hillary Clinton and said "no."

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."