American Life Quotes

111 quotes by 96 authors

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. — Russell Baker
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life. — John F. Kennedy
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric… — William J. Clinton
Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members… — Timothy Leary
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and… — Chester Himes
Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on… — Sarah Vowell
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it… — J. William Fulbright
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was… — Norman Mailer
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals… — Herbert Hoover
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.… — Richard Dawkins
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV… — Susan Sontag
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. — Brad Paisley
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with… — Joshua Mohr
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will… — George W. Bush
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer… — Sean O'Casey
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… — Norman Mailer
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach… — Knute Rockne
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… — David Foster Wallace

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