American dream Quote by David Foster Wallace

“There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness—a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of one must…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy…

— Anna Quindlen

The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her…

— David Blankenhorn

“The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are…

— Carl Sagan

“I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an…

— Ben Sasse

“Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.”

— Jen Hatmaker

“Politics is the only realm where adults, ironically, vote to become immature children and elect their parents.”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future…

— Greg Mortenson

“Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his…

— Paula Polk Lillard

“Recall that this is the first time that America truly had a “generation gap,” a chasm between parents and children. In previous generations, children…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

— Harold Evans

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of…

— Albert Camus