American Quote by Amanda Foreman

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke…

— Ernest Istook

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person…

— Jaime Murray

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have…

— Winston Churchill

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world…

— Viggo Mortensen

I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.

— Max Minghella

“British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any”

— Charles Dickens

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with…

— Claire Messud

Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of…

— Andrew Haigh

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since…

— Robert Burchfield

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

— Ai Weiwei