Top 1200 American Flag Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.

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

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.

...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

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.

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.

There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.

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

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn't see that coming!

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.

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.

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 think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

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.

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.

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.

Of course, it's an honor to be speaking on behalf of the U.S. government, but my boss is really the American people and there are different entities who are kind of serving the American people.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

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.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.

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

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

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.

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

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

I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.

'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.

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

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

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.

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

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

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

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."

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

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.

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 didn't want to wave the flag and be like, 'Look! I'm gay! Da da da.' I just wanted to say, 'This is my lifestyle.'

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.

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

I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.

We should be bolstering American energy independence and American jobs - not making ourselves vulnerable by lining the pockets of foreign energy suppliers.

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.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

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.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility.