Top 1200 South America Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried chicken, catfish, barbecue, collard greens, and sweet potatoes. These are excellent examples, because they are historically grounded. You can trace each dish back to the people who brought these food traditions to the South. Today, these foods are central to the core culinary grammar of the American South.

The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.

Trump's rhetoric is undermining America's credibility, undermining America's leadership and strength in Europe, even without him being president. The rhetoric itself is very damaging. Obviously, if you were to try to implement any of that rhetoric as president, it would be catastrophic for America's interests.

If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.?

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States.

America loves a forgiveness story. America is the land of second chances.

Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.

President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.

When it comes to dialogue between South and North Korea and between the United States and North Korea, these can go on parallel tracks. South Korea and the United States can each play a role.

We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.

You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

You make America great by making America available to a wide variety of people.

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is precisely because we have gone out to talk to the automobile companies to explain government policy with regard to that sector, to talk to them about the MIDP and things like that. And indeed, it has been a very important part of attracting those investors to put in money in the South African economy and build motorcars in South Africa.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

If a new president personalizes a rather different concept of America and a different sense of America's mission in the world than has been the case with president George W. Bush, then that almost automatically will help to improve America's global image. But the tangibles involving the war and the economy are not going to be easy to fix.

I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.

Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.

America has always been my biggest audience, so I'm putting a lot of faith in America.

Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off.

For me, I love and hate Costco. I think it's ruined America and made America great.

If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.

I think I probably have one of the easiest jobs in America. I get to run behind the best O-line in America.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.

Our North East region will prosper when it is better connected to South East Asia, and when the North East becomes our bridge to South East Asia, we will be closer to realising our hopes for India and ASEAN ties.

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.

When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.