American Quote by Gordon Sinclair

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

— Charles Kuralt

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

— Bible

“We heard the United States had a new president, that she was arranging for a loan from the Commonwealth to bail us out. We…

— Jean Hegland

“James hoped the newsletter would garner support from Bahana, or white people, to stop a town well that the Bureau of Indian Affairs wanted…

— Julene Bair

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

— Charles Kuralt

“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even read; depressed…

— James Baldwin

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the…

— Ronald Reagan

I read the newspaper.

— George W. Bush

Great floods have flown from simple sources.

— William Shakespeare

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and…

— Bill McKibben

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took…

— Paolo Bacigalupi