American dream Quote by Leslie Le Mon

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car…

— Walt Disney

The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry…

— Bill Pullman

“Almost everyone I’ve ever met likes to hear a story from the beginning. It’s a curious prejudice, when you think about it. In life,…

— Stephen Tobolowsky

One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has…

— Jonathan Raban

“The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a thousand people…

— Karen Foxlee

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and…

— Gertrude Stein

The origin of each story is unique.

— Kate DiCamillo

Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.

— Roy Stryker

“That is what New York teaches: beginnings and endings; how to start a scene, and how to escape it.”

— John Weir

“Street life was a struggle to survive today, with no time to reminisce and nothing in the past to get nostalgic over. There was…

— John Grisham

“Every story is the start of something big...”

— Ernest Grant

“Throughout America, Main Street has run to the suburbs and hidden in the malls, but New York still wears Christmas on its sleeve.”

— The New Yorker