Top 1200 Every American Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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.

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There's a kind of naturalism that I often find in non-American actors. I also find that quality in the American actors I work with, but I like to bring in those influences creatively.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

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

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

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

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

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

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

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

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

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

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

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

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.

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

We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their families, their parents were back home in American prison camps. It's savagely ironic that between themselves and the African-American soldiers, who were also segregated and didn't see the fruition of the work the culminated in the Civil Rights Act until the '60s, that these American heroes and their stories are not well known; and the fact that the 442nd/100th became the most decorated unit in U.S. history.

Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.

For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving

Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.

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 strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

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

I want these lefties to get called out as immoral basically to reduce the standard of living for every American by trying to ban fossil fuels in this country.

My heart goes out, as does every American, when I see the videotape of Jason Rezaian and Amir Hekmati and Saeed Abedini coming back to their families.

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

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

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

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

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

Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

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

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

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

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

Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen in one way or the other. Just as in painting, there's much more interest in the American scene painters and the early American... like the Ashcan school of painters. Who would have thought, 50 years ago, that Norman Rockwell would again be considered a serious painter? And yet, there are a lot of people who are saying Rockwell was a very accomplished technician. These things are constantly moving.

There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

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

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

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

The wall is not a bilateral issue. It's not something that we discuss with the American government. Every country has a sovereign right to protect its borders the best way that they see fit.

It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.

Now I'm with the American Top Team, I'm a better fighter, I'm a more patient fighter, I've improved in every aspect.

Yet another reason to be angry at President Trump: He is forcing me - and every other American who is not a racist - to defend the most left-wing members of Congress.

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