Quotes of: American-dream Keyword

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

Terry Eagleton

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'

Tom Verica

I had a dream about you. You wrapped the American flag around you like a towel, while I let Russia shower me with praise. The people over there really seemed to love me, probably because they are over there and I am not.


I had a dream about you 2

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

Bharati Mukherjee

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

Andrew Lincoln

Thus we come to the problem of determining what the poem is 'about.' Charles Altieri notes that '[a]n expression of the self can be one that is intended, the self's act, or one that is symptomatic, the act of a self not in control of what it manifest...

Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

...the distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.

The Sorrows of an American

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

John Lahr

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

Marion Cotillard

Dream Song: In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.

American Indians and Their Music

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.

How to Make an American Quilt