America Quote by Jeff Buckley

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

— Ruben Blades

“It's in you,' my dad assured me once. 'You were born in Panamá. It's in your bones.' I spent a lot of time trying…

— Cristina Henriquez

“Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at…

— Suzanne Finnamore

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather…

— Erika Christensen

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an…

— Al Pacino

We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren…

— Brian Schweitzer

“I drove away, as always, thinking of you. I do not believe that we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

— Phil Elverum

You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my…

— Chantal Akerman

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more…

— Alan Huffman

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

— Omar Torrijos Herrera

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole,…

— William Howard Taft

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a…

— J. August Richards

“The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal.”

— Alan Weisman