American Life Quotes
111 quotes by 96 authors
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
— Russell Baker
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
— John F. Kennedy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
— Brad Paisley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Who Wrote These American Life Quotes
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