America Quote by Yakov Smirnoff

There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and…

— Libba Bray

The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no…

— Claudia Jones

I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.

— Shonda Rhimes

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her…

— Patricia MacLachlan

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

— Irving Berlin

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as…

— D. H. Lawrence

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.

— Gough Whitlam

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing…

— James Weldon Johnson

“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…

— Colum McCann

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

— Diana Gabaldon

“She was sweating and pale but beautiful in the firelight. Showing a woman’s strength in a delicate vessel, holding strong like a warrior. I…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor