Easy Quote by Christian Bale

Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation,…

— Sarah McBride

I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an…

— Dave Wakeling

For me, the experience of not living in America was recognizing that I was American. You don't think about yourself being so culturally encoded,…

— Lynne Tillman

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

— Winston Churchill

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

— Jess Row

As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little…

— Richard Blanco

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we…

— Leslie Fiedler

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

— Marco Rubio

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

— William J. Clinton

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

— George Santayana

Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about…

— Brian Reade

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as…

— Ronald Reagan