American Quotes

I think 'American Pie' is great.

— Paul Dano

We love American ARMY so much!

— Kim Tae-hyung

Thank God, I also am an American!

— Daniel Webster

I'm very American.

— Norah Jones

Like American honey.

— Lady Antebellum

American men are like women.

— Bikram Choudhury

My parents are not American.

— Dorit Kemsley

Americans are shy about the body.

— Ana Beatriz Barros

We cannot decide for the American people.

— Vladimir Putin

I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'

— Ridley Scott

A major element in American energy policy is infrastructure.

— Jake Auchincloss

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

— Alice Eve

Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess.

— Jim Lee

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

— Lee DeWyze

The American public does not know poets exist.

— James Broughton

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

— Whoopi Goldberg

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

— Roger Ross Williams

The Iraq Study Group's report is a very respectable cover document for American surrender in Iraq.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

— Joseph Brodsky

I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.

— Jason Collins

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.

— Ellar Coltrane

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

— Constance Baker Motley

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.

— Rob Morgan

Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.

— Hilton Als

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance,…

— Marina Abramovic

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free…

— Os Guinness

Americans should boycott Yahoo products until they get the message that freedom is an American ideal, and we're not going to give…

— Shervin Pishevar

The national coronavirus response has been a radical experiment on the American people that destroyed our economy and harmed our liberty.

— Tom Fitton

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at…

— Dianne Wiest

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions.…

— Imelda May

To make sure that everyone is clear that we are all a part of the American experience, that all of our backgrounds,…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Because of ignorance, I wasn't a big fan of Marvel. I hadn't read the magazines. They were not as big in Europe…

— Stellan Skarsgard

“Everything American will disappear one day. More completely than that which was Greek, or Roman, or Egyptian. This is one of the…

— Henry Miller

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers…

— Salman Rushdie

I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a…

— Evangeline Lilly

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all…

— Virginia Postrel

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.…

— Henry Louis Gates

I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I…

— Aaron Schock

There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.…

— Anne Waldman

If President Obama were to enroll in an American government class, the professor would mark him absent on most days. In the…

— Mercedes Schlapp