Americans Quotes · Page 31

All of us, as humans, as Americans, as people who are lucky enough to be a part of this country's ideals, should…

— Stephanie Ruhle

“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.”

— Edith Wharton

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

— George Carlin

“I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

— George Mikes

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find…

— Helen Mirren

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average…

— Louis C. K

Americans cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

— Donald Trump

There are two worlds here in the U.S., especially here in Los Angeles. All the Latinos have watched my shows for 30…

— Eugenio Derbez

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can…

— Jürgen Moltmann

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our…

— Alice Walker

“Americans are a responsive people and the ideas, the knowledge and the emotions that come through the television screen in our living…

— Walt Elias Disney

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal…

— Jeremy Grantham

My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind.…

— W. H. Davies

Americans across the country are expressing their belief that the best chance for a better life in our country is with continued…

— Ronna McDaniel

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

— H. Robert Horvitz

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is…

— David Cronenberg

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

— Rush Limbaugh

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish.…

— Alan Cumming

Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.

— Mark Shields

It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several,…

— Tom Udall

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work.

— Paula Nelson

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

— James Gray

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

— Marshall McLuhan

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as…

— Ken Burns

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

— Nick Offerman

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

— Barack Obama

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

— John Irving

Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.

— Nat Hentoff

“In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

— Lester Thurow

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his…

— Wayne Gretzky

Long before 2020, many Americans were in the position of patching their own safety net and acting as their own city hall.

— Annie Lowrey

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more…

— George Will

Americans are pretty next level with snowboarding. We have the best training facilities, the best coaches that push us to the next…

— Hannah Teter

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

— Greg Gutfeld

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the…

— Edmund White