Americans Quotes · Page 25

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

— Wayne Gretzky

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

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— John Irving

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

— Barack Obama

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

Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism and the…

— Charlie Kirk

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the…

— Benjamin Carson

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers,…

— Alistair Cooke

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven…

— Marianne Williamson

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics…

— Jim Costa

“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you…

— William Bratton

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— James Gray

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

— Mark Shields

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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

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

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

— Helen Mirren

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

— Donald Trump

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

— George Mikes

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are…

— Walt Whitman

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

— Jeremy Clarkson

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

— Mira Nair

Americans do have a tendency to wind people up. When they are chanting U-S-A and there are lots of them, it just…

— Paul Casey

Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

— Brittany Maynard

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

— Walter E. Williams