America Quotes - Page 32

• Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Clouds, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, University of Missouri Press

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• In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talking, Listening, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.215, Penguin

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• I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dying, United States, West

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Country, Mind

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• The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Land, Water

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• President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

  Mort Kondracke

  War, Iraq, People

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• The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

  Ben Bova

  Suicide, Independent, Trying

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• I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

  Mohammed Daoud Khan

  Happiness, Light, Joy

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• More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Past, Years, Achievement

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• Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

  Frank Nugent

  Men, Confederate, States

  "Fictional character: Ethan". "The Searchers", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Law, Slavery, Republican

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• The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

  Hugh Masekela

  Real, Trying, Culture

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• From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

  Jay Saunders Redding

  Adolescence

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• It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Country, Kindness, Towns

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• I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

  Rex Stout

  Girl, Cat, Wild Life

  rex stout (1955). “three witnesses”

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• There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that on several occasions, both in England and America, I have been told that I am a legendary character.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Character, England And America, Talking

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• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Should Have, Ideas

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• You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Reality, Fiction

  "Military Secrets" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Discovery, Greed, Reckless

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

  Rick Santorum

  Spiritual, War, Believe

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• We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?

  Newt Gingrich

  Long, Criminals, Needs

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• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  Barack Obama

  Diversity, Long, Risk

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Careers, Firsts

  Cowboys & Indians magazine, September 2004.

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• I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.

  Harold B. Lee

  Father, Government, Land

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• United are more popular around the world. There is a difference and I can see that. Bayern Munich is a big club but United are bigger. When we [Bayern] were in China people knew us but Bayern were not so big in America.

  Bastian Schweinsteiger

  Differences, People, World

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