Quote by Neela Vaswani

“In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it,…

— Kathleen Norris

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”

— John Green

“Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.”

— D.B. Harrop

“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”

— John Green

“The love, the freedom, and the sovereignty you’ve been seeking have always lived within you. There is nothing more you need to become. Only…

— Audrey Sutton Mills

“We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”

— John Green

“In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.”

— Upton Sinclair