Quotes of: American-families Keyword

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Anthony Liccione

All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

Anthony Liccione

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Tori Spelling

You never did master a leer." - Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree

Life

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

Will Arnett

A man that loves and cherishes his woman and his family is a man of honor.

Wayne Chirisa

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

Jordana Spiro

Mama Lucas: You don't shoot cops. Even I know that. Eva knows it. The only one who DOESN'T seem to know is you. Frank Lucas: [ignores her pleas as he escorts her outside] All right, Mama. I'm not going to, I promise you. I'm not going to shoot anyone...

American Gangster

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Democracy: An American Novel

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they did was persist

Gravity's Rainbow

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part of it-a dream which was about one quarter hope and three quarters bitter disillusionment.

American Years

A blanket could be used as an American flag. It could keep the world warm with its patronizing patriotism and imperialism. 


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Dreams are what keep us growing. they are what keep us alive...io give up is to let our dreams die..........

A Bright New Morning: An American Story