Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by… — Nguyen Qui Duc Copy Share Image
“I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits. — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. — James Pike Copy Share Image
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I've been to Toronto several times and I would say that my best holidays have been there. I love it as a… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
“In our personal lives, we can seek to align our behavior with our values. We can live more simply, at once reducing… — John C. Ryan Copy Share Image
It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Liberals dominate most of the leading opinion-making areas of American life-- journalism, the movie and television industries, academia, the publishing industry, the… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I'm a Yugoslavian who loves America - my kids are Americans, you know. They're always going to be half and half because… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven.… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
“This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
