Americans Quotes · Page 11

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

— Richard Lamm

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

— William J. Clinton

“Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart…”

— Orson Scott Card

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

— Patti Smith

Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration, which is what we have now.

— Donald Trump

“They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris,”

— Anonymous

Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.

— Demetri Martin

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

— George W. Bush

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

— Ellen Willis

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

— Yogi Berra

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

— Maureen Dowd

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

— Bob Beauprez

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

“Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation; so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.”

— Patrick Mendis

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

— George W. Bush

I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we…

— Beth Hart

Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your…

— Carlos P. Romulo

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

— Ronna McDaniel

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 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

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

— Jürgen Moltmann

“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best…

— Gary Shteyngart

“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces;…

— Herman Melville

most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those…

— Barbara Deming

“Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the Leviathan , their navigation…

— Scott Westerfeld

“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of…

— Emma Goldman

“Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all…

— Niall Ferguson

I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed…

— William Monahan

“Like more than one Englishman in New York, he looked upon Americans as hopeless children whom Providence had perversely provided with this…

— Tom Wolfe

Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.

— Paul Ryan

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

— Sydney J. Harris

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

— Maz Jobrani

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

— Muhammad Ali

Most Americans travel through their TVs, not with their passports.

— Margaret Brennan

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

— Emilio Pucci

The best critics of America are Americans.

— William Klein

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

— Ada Louise Huxtable