Top 1200 Mexican American Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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