Greatest generation Quote by Norman Mailer Download Open image ““Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.”” — Norman Mailer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greatest generation War
“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“what freedom is to Americans, thoroughness to Germans, and the stiff upper lip to the British, hygge is to Danes.” — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
“In other words, what freedom is to Americans, thoroughness to Germans, and the stiff upper lip to the British, hygge is to Danes.” — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
“When I visit England, I want to bring back the best souvenir an American can get: a British accent.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply,… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians!” — George Fischer Copy Share Image
I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Growing up in northern Kentucky, honesty, integrity and character were revered traits, and - with my family - I looked to the greatest generation… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
“The Greatest Generation gets too much credit. Those World War II guys, if they had all the shit we have today, they'd be assholes… — Louis C.K Copy Share Image
And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The men and women of the Greatest Generation answered the call to serve; whether at home or abroad, they defended the freedoms and liberties… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“Kaitlin said, "I'm so sick of that 'Greatest Generation' crap. We finally drove a silver nail through the heart of Generation X, only to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The Greatest Generation? They tell me I am a member of the greatest generation. That's because I saw combat duty as a bombardier in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
