Best American Life Sayings

111 American Life quotes by 94 unique authors

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere… — Louis Kronenberger
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker
The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. — James Pike
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can… — Bruce Catton
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white… — Amiri Baraka
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types… — Pete Rozelle
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life. — Brian Sandoval
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for… — Alistair Cooke
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. — Pierre Salinger
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period… — Douglas Sirk
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. — Warren E. Burger
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof… — Herbert Croly
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. — Hope Davis
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance. — Melanie Fiona
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. — Norman Finkelstein
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost… — Ron Paul
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly… — Manny Farber
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I… — Zoe Kazan
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. — Ralph Ellison
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels… — Cornel West
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right… — Norman Mailer
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance… — Theodore Roosevelt
Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of… — Nguyen Qui Duc
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz

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