Quotes of: American-life Keyword

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The Closing of the American Mind

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The Closing of the American Mind

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart

Bits of You & Pieces of Me

Dreams are what keep us growing. They are what keep us alive. To give up, is to let our dreams die.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors...

Hollis Stacy

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

John Spratt

I’ve got a piece of the American Dream. I don’t have a house, but I do have a new chandelier. Now I just have to build a house around it.

$3.33

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

American Vampire, Vol. 1

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

An American Childhood

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.

Anthropology of an American Girl

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

The Americans

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

The American Storybag