Long time Quote by Carson McCullers

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“advancing your careers in some way?” A minute ago he loved America and Americans.”

— Arianne Richmonde

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,…

— Judy Croome

“He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike,…

— Jordan L. Hawk

“He could almost have been an American, he was so tan and had such good teeth, but I could tell straight away that he…

— Sylvia Plath

“As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person…

— Pat Conroy

“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn’t supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that…

— Yaa Gyasi

“The United States, the Spanish-American writer George Santayana wrote, ‘has always thought itself in an eminent sense the land of freedom, even when it…

— Pankaj Mishra

“He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the…

— Michael Shaara

“On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law.”

— Chaim Potok