The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as… — Anton Cermak Copy Share Image
When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE… — Mitchell Kapor Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her… — Sarah Helen Whitman Copy Share Image
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Seasons passed by. I always loved to watch the trees in our garden. With the first rain, the leaves would drench themselves.… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
