Typical American Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
— Bill Bryson
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in…
— H. L. Mencken
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American…
— Frank N. Ikard
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
— Djuna Barnes
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The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.…
— Norman Rockwell
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It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete…
— Mark Bittman
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by…
— Frederick Reines
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By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected…
— John Leo
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To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of…
— Steven Rattner
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't…
— Russell Kirk
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I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was…
— Peter DeLuise
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been…
— Zig Ziglar
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For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those…
— Don Kardong
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In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen,…
— Bill Dedman
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I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach,…
— Alan G. Poindexter
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Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even…
— Joel Fuhrman
Who Wrote These Typical American Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Typical American Quotes as follows: