American life Quotes

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

— James Pike

Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures.

— Donald Trump

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle

— Tavis Smiley

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

— Crowfoot

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

— Vicki Baum

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

— Warren E. Burger

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

— Gloria Steinem

Race has no place in American life or law.

— John F. Kennedy

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

— Ellsworth Huntington

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of…

— Joseph McCarthy

I'm a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It's been a more important, more substantial part…

— Oliver Luck

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in…

— Barack Obama

A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.

— Kevin Spacey

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

— Norman Finkelstein

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

— Alan Dershowitz

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run…

— Jon Meacham

“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be…

— Bill Bryson

'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and…

— J. G. Holland

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a…

— Bruce Catton

Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in…

— Martha Stewart

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“A MAIN ARGUMENT of this book concerns how so many parts of American life have morphed into forms of entertainment. From 1980…

— Kurt Andersen

“First, fidelity. The dictionary defines fidelity as a strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. To my mind, that…

— Historica Press

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider…

— Eric Foner

Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he…

— Ann Coulter

In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization.…

— R. C. Sproul

“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be…

— Bill Bryson

“In the wake of World War II, most Democrats and liberals claimed that if justice could be done and was not, only…

— Cal Jillson

“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,…

— Bill Bryson

“The American idea of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American idea of masculinity. Idea may not be the precise word,…

— James Baldwin

“You can’t forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether…

— Deborah L. Halliday

“When Gene Crutchfield brought his troubled friend to Hopkins in 1938, Hopkins was twenty-four years old and in charge of LeKies Memorial,…

— Neil Sheehan

“In recent decades, "pluralism" has become something of a buzzword. It is variously employed. Often it is used to argue that no…

— Richard John Neuhaus

“If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better…

— Frank Norris

“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that…

— James Truslow Adams

“The civil rights revolution provoked new declarations of ethnic identity by the now long-resident "new migration" from southern and eastern Europe--Italians, Greeks,…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr