America Quotes - Page 14

• When did America forget that it's America?

  Natan Sharansky

  Forget

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• 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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• You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Negativity, Achieve

  Source: productivemag.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

  Hollis Stacy

  Party, People, Lines

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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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• 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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• 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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• If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Godly, Government, Scary

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• It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.

  Antonin Scalia

  Scary, Looks, Coins

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• We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

  Paul Weyrich

  Talking, Scary, Political

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• I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Believe, Greatness

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• Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.' They would know that a morally strong America would not be dislodged. You can always appeal to a point of vulnerability which would break a people up. [Terrorists] don't fear so much the weaponry as the moral courage, and I think a morally strong America would be intimidating to them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.virtueonline.org

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• Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

  Demi Lovato

  Growing Up, White, Culture

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.

  Tom Ridge

  Country, Blessed, Broken

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, Civilization, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

  Thom Yorke

  Ideas, Issues, Focus

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. August 16, 2006.

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• It's a real misconception that water is a problem in Africa only. It's also an issue in Nepal, in Honduras, and in the United States of America. If we don't start paying attention now and curb our use and stop taking it for granted, we're going to be in a bad place, like everyone else.

  Kenna

  Real, Issues, Water

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

  Prince

  Focus, Hip Hop, Black

  "Tribute to Prince Part 1". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2016.

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