First American Quotes

23 First American quotes by 20 unique authors

• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. — Sally Ride
• 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,… — Unknown Author
• 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
• I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war. — Richard M. Nixon
• 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
• 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
• Jesus [was the] first American — Jerry Falwell
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell
• 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
• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. — Sally Ride
• 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
• 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
• My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed
• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. — Hannah Kearney
• Put it back in the horse! [on tasting his first American beer]. — H. Allen Smith
• I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These First American Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 23 First American Quotes as follows:

• 2 First American Quotes by William J. Clinton
• 2 First American Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 First American Quotes by Sally Ride
• 1 First American Quote by Stacy Allison
• 1 First American Quote by Shirley Chisholm
• 1 First American Quote by Sean William Scott
• 1 First American Quote by Russell Crowe
• 1 First American Quote by Robert Motherwell
• 1 First American Quote by Richard M. Nixon
• 1 First American Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 First American Quote by Lee H. Hamilton
• 1 First American Quote by John Sergeant Wise
• 1 First American Quote by Jerry Saltz
• 1 First American Quote by Jerry Falwell
• 1 First American Quote by Hunter S. Thompson
• 1 First American Quote by Hannah Kearney
• 1 First American Quote by H. Allen Smith
• 1 First American Quote by David Letterman
• 1 First American Quote by Dalia Mogahed
• 1 First American Quote by Bernard DeVoto