Quotes of: American-life Keyword

Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting...

The Money Spiders, the Ruin-NATION of the United States by the Federal Reserve

The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat operation this time. This time, Fidel Castro and his hairy henchmen would find out what it felt like to have American fighter-bombers...

Life: An Exploded Diagram

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like ...

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we s...

Season of Migration to the North

Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or r...

What On Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations

Mexico, as it was in the 1970s—and isn’t now—was my Paris. With Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans I celebrated life and the journey, which took on qualities of a pilgrimage in which every moment was a movable feast and every place was a shrine...

Counting Stars at Forty Below

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for...

Ralph Ellison

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very plac...

Harlan Coben

I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is ve...

Joyce Carol Oates

The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all but overwhelmed by conflicting emotions: awe, indignation, envy, contempt, fascination, revulsion—but most of all a deep lonelines...

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Even a lion finds time to relax and look for a good spot.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

An essential part of teaching is to show how to enjoy learning.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

James Bovard

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

Renzo Piano

Love means never having to say your are sorry

Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

If it was that easy, the American military would have figured it out years ago.

Master and Apprentice

I’m in love with my corporate girlfriend, with the Cyclops heart

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

Jon Meacham

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

Nancy Pelosi