Quotes of: American-life Keyword

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

Jim DeMint

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Daniel Tammet

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the...

Daniel Kahneman

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

Harlan Coben

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Isabel Allende

A great American city is fighting for its life.

Marc Morial

I love the American way of life.

Juan Pablo Montoya

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

Paula Abdul

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demand...

Death and Life: An American Theology

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything...

Mel Martinez

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

Nigel Lythgoe

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A new day is a new beginning, a new life to live!

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering no...

Studies in Classic American Literature