Quotes of: American-life Keyword

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

David Cassidy

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

Eric Burdon

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

Kate Bush

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Melissa Etheridge

Life is a journey. Our whole life we are preparing for the journey, but never take the road.

Debasish Mridha

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theo...

A Theology of Liberation

Life is a journey where we don't want to arrive at our final destination too soon, unfortunately many of us live from day to day and some very rarely explore life's rich tapestry or take time to focus on what they really want out of life. Go explore ...

Darren Housley

Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.

The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves but Can't Read, Write or Add

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated ...

Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers

Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the Ameri...

Decision Points

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

The Best American Travel Writing 2008

I don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family

Freedom is more than just a willingness to live; it is a force that binds us all. Being truly free is seeing America as our "heart and home." Uniting around a common good will help bring us together in true happiness into the future.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Freedom is more than just a willingness to live. It is a force that binds us all. Being truly free is seeing America as our "Heart and Home". Uniting around a common good will bring us true happiness into the future.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story