Quotes about america
american-author
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. Toni Cade Bambara
america calling card gave nobody paid until work
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work. Tom Hardy
american-musician frame mercenary
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. Tommy Shaw
american-musician love sad works
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs. Toni Braxton
american-athlete
There are only two places in the league - first place and no place. Tom Seaver
american-celebrity
The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere. Tom Metzger
american-celebrity cause franklin help operations wing
If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
american-celebrity exist fight race thick thin
We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.
america brutal eager fleeing grateful help regime service uncles veterans
On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager to serve. Thomas Perez
american-musician
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. Stevie Nicks
america saving wilderness
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. Edward Abbey
america people trying
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
america rising levels
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
america trying god-bless
God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
america way natural
Natural gas is great for America in so many ways. Ed Rendell
america people nations
We are a great nation because we are a good people. Elizabeth Dole
america three world
I said it three times actually. Edward Heath
american-president determination man mistakes
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
america deserves group
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing ... are parents. Jack Valenti
american-educator function please primary serve
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. Robert Brustein
american-author immediate knowledge pays price pursuing ugly
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. James A. Baldwin
america government people
If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business. Dave Ramsey
america color hear latin listen regardless skin stuff
What I did wasn't just for Latin players. I did this because I want to live in an America where no one regardless of their skin color has to hear that stuff anymore. For too long, I had to listen to that stuff, and it wasn't right and it isn't right now. Felipe Alou
american-educator blow opened saw sticking
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. James Lipton
american-cartoonist
We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success. Mike Peters
america enemy betray
America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy. Ahmed Chalabi
american-comedian gets hopefully people presented public
When you come out with a film, hopefully it gets presented to the public in the right way so people aren't getting something they don't expect. Ben Stiller
american-educator drive farmers growing organic price risk selling start
When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture. Michael Pollan
america full gm gotten issues key north responsibility shoulders taking took
When Wagoner took over for GM North America, he essentially implied that it was all on his shoulders now. By taking on that role, he took full responsibility for North America, where the key issues are. And things have only gotten worse.
american-producer fewer people prior strike unemployed
When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren't going to be the first ones back to work. Dick Wolf
american-celebrity officer police talked
When this first happened, actually the very first day we were home, I talked to the police officer and told him about this craft.
american-poet change eighty people
Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry. Philip Levine
american-athlete drawings expert gears largely leonardo military thousands
Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes. Kit Williams