The early American arrived at a land of which he knew…

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams,…

— Keiichi Sigsawa

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and…

— Christopher Gist

“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that…

— Lawrence Hill

The great advantage of the American is that he has arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution and…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started…

— Mitski

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of…

— Israel Zangwill

“Producing and eating our own food is, historically, much of what made us Americans and not subjects of European powers. While other colonies required…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

— Ben Stiller

“Alexis de Tocqueville, the French thinker who keenly chronicled early American society, described the consequences of ever-increasing choice more than 170 years ago: In…

— Sheena Iyengar

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom,…

— Frank Chodorov

“How early the American cause turned to the sea.”

— Dudley W. Knox

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because…

— Didier Drogba

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

— Antonio Porchia

I lost 7kg when I arrived at Tottenham from Southampton.

— Victor Wanyama

“You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.”

— Gillian Flynn