America Quote by Raquel Cepeda

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“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

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”

— James Baldwin

“There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns…

— Donald Hamilton

“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he…

— David Barton

“there seems an atmosphere everywhere these days in America, a malevolent vibration in the air, every citizen so quick to righteous rage, some tribal…

— Nickolas Butler

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

— Bruce Cumings

“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

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

“Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace.…

— Scott Turow

“That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in…

— Neela Vaswani

“It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were…

— Mohsin Hamid