America Quotes · Page 115

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think that Jerry Bruckheimer just kind of has his finger on the pulse of what America wants.

— Boti Bliss

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

— Henry Ford

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

— Harry Shum, Jr

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

— Alan Dundes

I always stand for America, No. 1. But I have stood alongside Israel proudly.

— Brian Mast

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

— Sandi Toksvig

Infrastructure is the backbone of America, and our nation's progress has often been tied to our ability to complete major projects that…

— Josh Shapiro

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

— Michael S. Harper

We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns!…

— Paul Washer

I'll be honest with you man. I really like the Lions. I like everything they stand for with Dan Campbell, they're play…

— Micah Parsons

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn…

— Louis Farrakhan

“It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we…

— Keith Ellison

Ronald Reagan said a nation without borders is not a nation. Donald Trump is committed to restoring the borders of America.

— Mike Pence

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the…

— Katherine Jenkins

In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I…

— Isabella Rossellini

[Donald Trump rhetoric]this is a common rhetorical line used by people who are against free trade that say, we're in favor of…

— Avik Roy

Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator,…

— Pablo Neruda

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's…

— Martin Scorsese

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by…

— Tariq Ramadan

London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a…

— Sadiq Khan

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart,…

— Woodrow Wilson

The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight,…

— David Krumholtz

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

— Ronald Reagan

I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm so grateful to America and my hometown of Pittsburgh. I love my city. I'm proud of being from here.

— Bruno Sammartino

I believe this can be a breakthrough year for America.

— Barack Obama

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

— Leonard Ravenhill

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

— Alphonso Jackson

“The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.”

— Michael J. Fox

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

— Anonymous

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

— Norman Granz

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

— Anonymous

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

— Ron Cephas Jones

I lived in America for a while but England is very much my home, and London especially.

— David Essex