Motivational Quotes

America

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

- James, Henry

Best Quotes about America

James, Henry

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.

Askew, Ruben

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Jack Kerouac

There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Twain, Mark

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Frost, Robert

American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Dylan, Bob

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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.

Beveridge, Albert J.

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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Burroughs, William S.

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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Ziglar, Zig

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Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

King George III

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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste

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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Bailey, Philip James

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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Einstein, Albert

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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Butler, Nicholas

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The American people abhor a vacuum.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Fuentes, Carlos

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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Thomas, Norman

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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Wharton, Edith

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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Macleish, Archibald

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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

Bobcat Goldthwaite

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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush

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I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

Olson, Charles

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Gunther, John

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Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Miller, Henry

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Sontag, Susan

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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Gramm, Phil

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Baudrillard, Jean

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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

Burroughs, William S.

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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Harper, Michael S.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are no second acts in American lives.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Mark Twain

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America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Barrymore, John

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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Miller, Henry