America Quotes - Page 249

When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.

The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.

America has undergone a total food and wine revolution.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America.

Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America as a nation coincided with the Romantic era and I've always been thoroughly into the Romantics and I've always been thoroughly into America, particularly at the time when it was a brand new idea, when it was something brand new in the world. It was a very exciting time in the world because of the birth of America

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.