sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).” — Saul Bellow 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
Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“I knew that I would never be able to voluntarily walk back into the corporate American lifestyle. Once a person escapes from… — Conrad Cooper Copy Share Image
“All the fakeness just rolls right off them, maybe because the nonstop sales job of American life has instilled in them exceptionally… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the… — John Engler Copy Share Image
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
I think we're going to care more about Americans than Africans. I don't think that's ever going to go away, and I… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and… — Andrew J. Bacevich Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful crosscurrents to illiberalism in American life is a broad-minded and democratic egalitarianism. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr 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
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm Mexican-American, but I grew up with a normal American life. I don't have a low rider. I drive a Honda. I… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a… — Michael Baumgartner 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
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
