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American Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
- Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's…
- And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American…
- For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
- I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.
- Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that…
- Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
- I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I…
- Hardly anyone in the world is an American
- Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
- It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual…
- Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
- Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very…
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact…
- Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every…
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca