Top 1200 American Tradition Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

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.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

The American people are seeing in President Trump a leader who is keeping his word to the American people.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

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.

I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what's happening to the country.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

The history and tradition of the Rose Bowl, if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will.

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But 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.

Even if you look at 'American Idol,' or 'X-Factor,' or 'The Voice' or anything, it was always difficult to see an Asian or an Asian-American make it to a certain point.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

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.

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.

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.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Every American, and every corporation, should pay their fair share to build the American dream.

I think O. J. Simpson was a very prominent figure in the African-American community. He was sort of a manifestation of the American dream: 'If it can happen for him, it can happen for me.'

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

We are confident that just like the American people can, the Senate can also multitask and they can do their constitutional duty while continuing to conduct the business of the American people.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change.

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

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 father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

I want to raise awareness about evils perpetuated on American citizens by other American citizens.

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

What I'm known for - 'Game of Thrones,' 'Star Wars' - they film in England, but they're American productions. Because American productions are willing to see Asian actors.

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

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

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.