America Quotes

The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher’s eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner’s lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

~ Anna Myers

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.

~ Francine Pascal

- Just that. Your family must be very different from mine.- I’d say so. - I laughed. - For one, no one wears their tiaras to breakfast.- Maxon smiled. - More of a dinner thing at the Singer house?”- “Of course.

~ Kiera Cass

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

~ Kiera Cass

He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same.

~ Kiera Cass

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

~ Kiera Cass

I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.

~ Kiera Cass

Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

~ Kiera Cass

The Swendish queen— whose name I couldn’t pronounce to save my life.

~ Kiera Cass

Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

~ Kiera Cass

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.

~ T. Rafael Cimino

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

~ Thomas Jefferson

We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease.

~ H.l. Mencken

One if by land, two if by sea.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

~ George Washington

It's halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.It's halftime in America, too. People are out of work and they're hurting. And they're all wondering what they're going to do to make a comeback. And we're all scared, because this isn't a game.The people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything. But we all pulled together, now Motor City is fighting again.I've seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of downturns in my life. And, times when we didn't understand each other. It seems like we've lost our heart at times. When the fog of division, discord, and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead.But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right, and acted as one. Because that's what we do. We find a way through tough times, and if we can't find a way, then we'll make one.All that matters now is what's ahead. How do we come from behind? How do we come together? And, how do we win?Detroit's showing us it can be done. And, what's true about them is true about all of us.This country can't be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines.Yeah, it's halftime America. And, our second half is about to begin.

~ Clint Eastwood

My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surrounding Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us.

~ Yahtzee Croshaw

it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to realize they'd alienated the entire world.

~ Yahtzee Croshaw

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

~ Markham Shaw Pyle

America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...

~ Lance Morrow

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

~ Winston Churchill

I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

If America runs on Dunkin', do I detect a slight limp?

~ Josh Stern

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

~ Markham Shaw Pyle

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.

~ Kiera Cass

She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

~ Kiera Cass

My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

~ Kiera Cass

So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

~ Kiera Cass

I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.

~ Kiera Cass

I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?

~ Kiera Cass

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen.

~ Kiera Cass

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…

~ Kiera Cass

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

~ Kiera Cass

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

~ Kiera Cass

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

~ Kiera Cass

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

~ Max Brooks

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology.

~ Jean Baudrillard

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Pulling out onto the highway I noticed a stone pillar commemorating the Donner Party. They were a true testament to the American spirit, push forward at all costs and eat the dead when necessary. Wasn’t that the American dream in a nutshell.

~ Josh Stallings

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

~ William R. Bowen