American history Quote by William Least Heat-Moon Download Open image “To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.” — William Least Heat-Moon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American history American Land Goodness History History Land Hope Inspirational Land Land Solidity Solidity
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and… — John Graves Copy Share Image
“The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the "sweet land of liberty". Should a land so dreamed into existence, so degenerate… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“Everything in US history is about the land—who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power -… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image