Achievement Quote by Tavi Gevinson

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always…

— Amy Chua

“But do you think the achievements of the Americans -- envied the world over -- came without a cost? Just ask their African brothers.…

— Amor Towles

“At the greatest cost! But do you think the achievements of the Americans—envied the world over—came without a cost? Just ask their African brothers.…

— Amor Towles

My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to…

— Jessica Alba

As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However,…

— Mohammad Marandi

I feel the American people are resilient.

— Jacky Rosen

“you know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all that suburban…

— Jack Kerouac

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The…

— James Gray

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

— Willem de Kooning

“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship…

— Jack Kerouac

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become…

— Salman Rushdie

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially…

— Colin Firth

Actually, until a few years ago, my English was very poor. I wasn't thinking of my American roots at all, until I went to…

— Sergino Dest

“You never feel more American than when you leave America.”

— David Lebovitz

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

— Xander Schauffele