America Quotes - Page 13

• In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

  Anita Roddick

  Giving, Foundation, Body

  "Family fortunes" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2008.

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• To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

  Graydon Carter

  Growing Up, Crazy, Kids

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• Everything I love about America is fragile.

  Graydon Carter

  Fragile

  "How King of New York took battle to the Great Polariser" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2003.

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• Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Mean, Soul

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• There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.

  William Saroyan

  Land, Armenia, Earth

  William Saroyan (1992). “Saroyan's Armenians: An Anthology”, Aegina Press

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• When families are strong, America is strong.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Strong America

  "Video: Watch Hillary Clinton Announce Bid for President" by Ryan Gajewski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2015.

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• Is Miami America? Is it a state? Is it the South? ... I love Miami for the same reason I love the places I love most around the world... it's the mix here, this big, messy, dysfunctional hell broth of people from all over the world that make it so awesome and make it a place I want to keep coming back to. Also the food's good.

  Anthony

  People, World, Want

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• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

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• Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

  J. Gordon Melton

  Impact, Groups, Made

  J. Gordon Melton (1978). “The Encyclopedia of American Religions”

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• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  Nancy Lublin

  Running, Wall, Sneakers

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Fighting, Unique

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• If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, War

  "Quarantine the Aggressor". Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the world situation in Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1937.

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

  John F. Kennedy

  Agency, Confusion, Dry

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Men, Doctors

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• But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Believe, Issues

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

  James A. Garfield

  United States, Giants, Firsts

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• This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Country, Community

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.188, Univ of California Press

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• Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Circles, Two

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• In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

  "The peculiar history of the Pledge of Allegiance" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2013.

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• [God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

  Ezola B. Foster

  Scary, Slave, Descendants

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• We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

  Billy Graham

  Moving, Thinking, Scary

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul". Book by D. James Kennedy and Jim Nelson Black (p. 80), September 1994.

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• We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, Choices, Scary

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.526, Multnomah

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