Top 1200 American Eagle Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

If you ask the American people to choose, between public health and the economy, then it's no contest. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy, at the cost of human life. Because no American is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority.

I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

I have a spirit guide. His name is Gray Eagle. This is why some people think I am a really crazy person, but he is the one who helps me and guide me. So I'm talking to the spirit world all the time.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.

Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.