Quotes of: American-children Keyword

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mortals and Others 1: American Essays 1931-35

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

While I've never read Scientific American, I'll bet it is pretty scientific. And American. Just like those prehistoric cave drawings in the south of France.

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