First American Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
— Sally Ride
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In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense,…
— Stuart Campbell
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I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too.…
— William J. Clinton
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I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by…
— Shirley Chisholm
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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
— Mark Twain
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Jesus [was the] first American
— Jerry Falwell
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New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title:…
— Stacy Allison
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign…
— John Sergeant Wise
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Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with…
— Sean William Scott
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President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
— Lee H. Hamilton
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California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you…
— William J. Clinton
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On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have…
— Russell Crowe
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Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
— Robert Motherwell
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Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get…
— David Letterman
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
— Sally Ride
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Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was…
— Jerry Saltz
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
— Dalia Mogahed
Who Wrote These First American Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 First American Quotes as follows: