American Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“Say we are from nowhere or anywhere or somewhere, we are make-believe people, frauds, reinventions, shapeshifters, which is to say, Americans.”

— Salman Rushdie

“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would…

— Bill Bryson

“God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.”

— Randy Alcorn

“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their gaudy visions…

— H.L. Mencken

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

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

— Paul Tillich

“Americans are artisans in freedom.”

— Derrick G. Jeter

“The wealth of America isn’t an inventory of goods; it’s an organic, living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties, moral commitments,…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“And yet isn’t it true of all of us? That there are things we feel to be at the heart of our nature that…

— Nicole Krauss

“Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.”

— Timothy Keller

“Though many desperately and relentlessly cling to old, divisive ideas in the face of a future that looks complex and uncertain, no one can…

— Roméo Dallaire

“..we may value foreign elements not only because they are new but because they seem to accord more faithfully with our identity and commitments…

— Alain de Botton