Best American Life Quotations

111 American Life quotes by 94 unique authors

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it… — Henry James
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and… — Tony Judt
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and… — Florence King
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. — Joe Klein
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing… — Jeffrey Kluger
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public… — Anita Loos
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. — Norman Mailer
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and… — Jon Meacham
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American… — Joyce Carol Oates
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist… — Camille Paglia
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets. — Henry Paulson
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. — Richard Russo
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent… — Joyce Carol Oates
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and… — J. Maarten Troost
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A… — Christopher Hitchens
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that… — Marya Mannes
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness,… — Frank Crowninshield
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company,… — Randall Kennedy
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual… — Virginia Postrel
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of… — Sue Monk Kidd

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