Quotes about america
american-athlete
If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail. Mark Spitz
american-athlete comments decided everybody intention realized shaving
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
american-athlete games munich
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
american-athlete elected individual opposed six swim
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
american-artist intimate normal opposite painted pictures scale since
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. Mark Rothko
american-artist archaic kinship profess
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
american-musician children
And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13. Merle Haggard
american-musician
No, I had a back injury early on in my life.
america
This is the America we know because we built it. Mia Love
american-musician pick telling
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. Method Man
american-musician
We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.
american-musician checks school
So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.
american-musician
Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.
american-musician employ hands hearts hire men work
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you. Merle Shain
american-musician learns
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
american-activist control hope
Our only hope is to control the vote. Medgar Evers
american-journalist until
I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court. Nina Totenberg
american-journalist good people wants
Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
america classical four interest popular
The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there. Nigel Kennedy
america broad corps painted people typical
When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush. Wendy Kopp
america bodies flows human liquid red sign
When you think 'bloody' in America you think the red liquid that flows from human bodies which is usually a sign of some kind of violence.
american-athlete career cup distances people single skating
When you think about these single distances championships and these World Cup races, people can make a career out of skating one or two distances. Eric Heiden
america appreciate fans players relief response stay support teams tremendous
We appreciate the tremendous response of our fans and everything that our teams and players are doing to support the relief effort, ... We are going to stay at it because all of America is going to have to stay at it. Paul Tagliabue
american-author angel anybody body hustler internal scribbling traffic wondering writer
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.
america costs electricity forest highest investment north ontario rates sector wood
We're not going to see new investment in Ontario's forest sector as long as Ontario has the highest electricity rates in North America (and) as long as Ontario has the highest wood costs in North America,
america space insulting
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth. Charles Luckman
america way social
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. Charles Krauthammer
america justice radio
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead. Aime Cesaire
america shining rehabilitation
In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. Bill Jenkins
america people taxation
Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.
america greed boeing
Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing. Bill Johnson
america effort mind
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American Bernice Johnson Reagon
america isis iran
Don't be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn't turn Iran into a friend of America. Benjamin Netanyahu