America Quote by William Dean Howells

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

— Linda Colley

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

— Mary McCarthy

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

— Robert Wolders

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

— Albert Einstein

“It's amazing in Europe: Europe has become extraordinarily colonized culturally by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable―Europeans aren't aware of…

— Noam Chomsky

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and…

— George Steiner

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against…

— Linda Colley

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema.

— Tom Hiddleston

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true…

— George W. Bush

Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word,…

— James A. Baldwin

I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.

— Marvin Gaye

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the…

— Wallace Stevens