Quotes of: American-dream Keyword

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

James Sinegal

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

Hollis Stacy

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Craig L. Thomas

Dreams are what keep us growing. They are what keep us alive. To give up, is to let our dreams die.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Azar Nafisi

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Brian Chesky

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

Buzz Aldrin

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these thing...

Sarah Lacy

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.” The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best t...

Nicholas D. Kristof

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

Buzz Aldrin

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

Carly Fiorina

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

James Altucher

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

Bob McDonnell

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

Jill Robinson

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.

Tommy Hilfiger

When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, ...

Barkhad Abdi

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

Robin Hayes

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

James Howard Kunstler

Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.'

Shashi Tharoor