Cities Quote by Djuna Barnes

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or…

— Johan Huizinga

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He…

— B. C. Forbes

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the…

— Alan G. Poindexter

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth…

— Edgar Lee Masters

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

— Henry Rollins

I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American…

— James A. Michener

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big…

— Lincoln Steffens

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator,…

— Jeff Kinney

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have…

— Norman Rockwell

“It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.”

— Davis Bunn

In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and…

— Bill Dedman

“The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.”

— Paul Tillich

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have…

— Zig Ziglar