America Quote by Andrew Lam

We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were…

— John Landgraf

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the…

— Ronald Reagan

The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming.…

— Mark Kurlansky

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

— Mason Cooley

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

— Jay Leno

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of…

— HU Westermayer

“Turkeys are originally from North America. They actually originate from Mexico.”

— John Brown

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

— Dave Beard

“Producing and eating our own food is, historically, much of what made us Americans and not subjects of European powers. While other colonies required…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

— Phil Gramm

The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful…

— James Howard Kunstler