America Quotes - Page 222

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

If I've got any small role in this matter, it's to say to Scots Americans: under no circumstances make Donald Trump President of the United States of America.

In America everything is fantastical.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world.

Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.