America Quote by Russell Shorto Download Open image “Manhattan is where America began.” — Russell Shorto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Manhattan
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
There is no place like America. Between the stunning skyline of New York and the bright lights of Hollywood it is out there. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“So how, in an increasingly interconnected world, do we integrate and still keep our values?” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine,… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“Relying on physical remedies alone was often seen as downright ungodly: in England, Puritan minister John Sym advised “caution” that people “dote not upon,… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years’ time would be christened New Jersey, was in… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image