Quotes of: American-film Keyword

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

The Americans

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

The American Storybag

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The American Soul: TK

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

How to Make an American Quilt

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

How to Make an American Quilt

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

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

Paradise Imperfect: An American Family Moves to the Costa Rican Mountains