American Quote by Garrison Keillor Download Open image ““The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.”” — Garrison Keillor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American American Thing Thing Thing Say
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.” — Bruce Cumings Copy Share Image
“It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word...” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“You will have to live among Americans, and they despise most freedoms, so conform.” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“I wondered if anyone thought what we were doing was unpatriotic. It was weird. Thinking that to protest was somehow un-American.” — Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Copy Share Image
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What other country can throw away money sending… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
On investments, 1998: Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
