America Quotes - Page 164

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.

All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.

To me, America is just another market.

To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

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

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

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

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.