Quotes of: American-life Keyword

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Alan Dershowitz

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

Life is -- not separate from death.

Native American

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Isaac Mizrahi

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the Europe...

Tony Judt

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Warren E. Burger

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Billy Corgan

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Gloria Steinem

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Russell Baker

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Brad Paisley

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Richard Russo

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Andrew Young

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

An American Childhood

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men....

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy. Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

Pierre Salinger

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

Dan Rosensweig

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience