Top 1200 American Scholar Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

My administration will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.

I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.

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

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

Being a first-generation Cuban American, my story represents the American Dream.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater.

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

The stealing of American research, of course, ultimately takes American jobs.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.