Top 1200 American Kids Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

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 have an American passport, but I don't always remember I'm an American citizen.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

My greatest hope is to be able to pass the same dreams and hopes and vision that I've been able to enjoy in my life, on to the next generation. Not just for my children - because with a mother like Michelle, my kids are going to be great - but for all children. There are too many children in this country for whom the American dream is so distant and the odds against them are so daunting.

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

Approximately 82% of the American people believe labeling should take place with regard to genetically engineered ingredients. All over this country people are increasingly concerned about the quality of the food they are ingesting and the food they are giving to their kids. People want to know what is in their food, and I believe that is a very reasonable request.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.

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

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

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

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

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

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing a novel if it didn't allude to the system into which these people are orchestrated - or an Eastern European writer, or a Russian writer, or a Chinese writer. Only American writers are able to imagine that the government and the corporations - all of it - seem to have no effect whatsoever.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history. Those of us who teach American Religion have a responsibility to tell all of the story, not just the nice touchy-feely parts.

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

I don't want my kids safe and comfortable. I want them BRAVE. ... I don't want to be the reason my kids choose safety over courage. I hope I never hear them say, 'Mom will freak out,' or 'My parents will never agree to this.' May my fear not bind their purpose here. Scared moms raise scared kids. Brave moms raise brave kids. Real disciples raise real disciples.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

It is un-American, it is unjust to target any group of folks whether they are African-American, Hispanic, poor or elderly when it comes to access to the vote.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.