America Quotes - Page 52

America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.

Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.

American television really is pathetic.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?

If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.