Quotes of: American-history Keyword

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Sting

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Taylor Branch

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

Toby Jones

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Karl Dönitz

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

Lauren Greenfield

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

Liam Neeson

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Michael Moore

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

Rand Paul

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Archibald MacLeish

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Henry Louis Gates

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

Jake Abel

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Stewart Udall

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

Robert Vaughn

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Gordon Gee

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Simon Van Booy

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.

Wesley Snipes

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Benjamin Todd Jealous