Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Orne Jewett

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Sander Levin

We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.

Sander Levin

In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.

Sam Keen

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Rick Santorum

But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans.

Rick Santorum

People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.

Rick Santorum

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

Rick Perry

Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate that we've never seen in the history of this country.

Roger Stone

There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

Rod Parsley

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

Rod Parsley

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

Marquis de Lafayette

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

Marquis de Lafayette

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.

Maurice Greene

Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt.

Merlin Olsen

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

Paul Farmer

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Paul Cook

Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.

Patricia McBride

I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

Paul Bettany

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

Peggy Fleming

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

Peggy Fleming

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Peggy Noonan

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Marco Rubio

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.

Marco Rubio

In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.

Mary McGrory

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Paul Auster

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

Ryan Guzman

I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.