Quotes about america
american-designer animals except
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. Edith Head
american-musician greatest learn love
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved. Eden Ahbez
american-artist human maybe side
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper
american-judge barred calls confess confession crime enters offer police statements states station stop wishes
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. Earl Warren
american-judge education local provisions public requiring
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
american-journalist holding ideas kennedy run shortened
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. Hugh Sidey
american-athlete people recounting
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. Hugh Mackay
american-athlete countries designed inflict people
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
american-athlete best chance change creative embrace learned lives people perhaps possibilities stand sudden taken twists whose
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
american-comedian
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. Jane Wagner
american-businessman art increased love
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. J. Paul Getty
american-novelist atom rather sleepy
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London
american-comedian
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. James Thurber
american-author brought
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Lane Allen
american-president bread cannot man peanut
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. James A. Garfield
american-artist life painting
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. Jackson Pollock
american-athlete kinds power
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. Jackie Kennedy
american-journalist far known man wonder
So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around. Art Buchwald
american-artist bit fly foot work
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. Andrew Wyeth
american-artist art far goes love
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
american-businessman business great himself leadership wants
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie
american-musician criticise far trying
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. Ani Difranco
american-president cannot confidence despair fear founded government great intelligence majority virtue
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. Andrew Jackson
american-president chance seize
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
american-president fun
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
american-president pay secure
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
american-president brave country coward deserts hour man worth
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
american-president debated determined fields halls line separation settled tried union wider
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
america few
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes. Gail Sheehy
america civil fiscally socially somebody using
Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties. Gary Johnson
american-musician best change gimmicks
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with. Garth Brooks
american-musician
You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
america turning
We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left. Giorgio Napolitano