Great American Quotes - Page 3

• I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Law, American Indian

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

  Chief Joseph

  Brother, Native American, Reality

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Native American, Rights

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  144 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Nature, Native American, Men

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Art, Real, Identity

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.

  Marco Rubio

  Mean, Thinking, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

  Tony D'Souza

  Doubt, Students, Certain

  4 Copy quote

• Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  American Life

  4 Copy quote

• In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.

  Daniel Handler

  Men, People, Worry

  4 Copy quote

• In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Class, Conviction, Nations

  4 Copy quote

• Labour day is a great American holiday that people
  celebrate by going out and buying products
  made in China

  David Letterman

  Holiday, People, Buying

  4 Copy quote

• She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

  John Grisham

  Baby, School, Law

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2016

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Records, Conflict

  Winston Churchill (1958). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The Great democracies”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Country, War, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  John Green

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

  4 Copy quote

• I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Father, Thinking, Sprung Up

  5 Copy quote

• My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

  5 Copy quote

• People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Joy

  4 Copy quote

• Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Writing, Pits, Next

  4 Copy quote

• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Republic, Wisconsin

  Remarks in Senate, 29 Feb. 1872 See Decatur 1; Chesterton 3; Twain 114

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, Jail, People

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

  Show source