Chance Quote by Marya Mannes

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to…

— Eric Hoffer

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

— Kurt Vonnegut

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”

— Ryū Murakami

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

— Rollo May

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

— DH Lawrence

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

— Alf Landon

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five…

— Bill Bruford

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost…

— Gunnar Myrdal

“Could it be that Americans are a restless people, a mobile people, never satisfied with where they are as a matter of selection? The…

— John Steinbeck

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots…

— Douglas Coupland

We are not born for ourselves alone.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets.…

— Thomas Jefferson