Top 1200 American Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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

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

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

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

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us such a world power. Hundreds of millions of people may never set foot in the United States, but thanks to you, they've experienced a small part of what makes our country special. They've learned something about our values. We have shaped a world culture through you...in a way that has made the world better.

Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism — the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies — must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

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.

First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

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

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

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

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