America Quote by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or…

— Mark Frost

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

— Laura Z. Hobson

“Don't you ever just think of yourself as American?”

— Sabrina Vourvoulias

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the…

— Barack Obama

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

— James Patterson

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

— Robert Crumb

I was the all-American face.

— Debra Winger

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright,…

— Stanley Donwood

“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and…

— Denis Johnson

Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up…

— Edith Piaf

During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.

— Mike Medavoy