Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

How to Be an American Housewife

People who seek the truth never stop looking for it

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

Brit Hume

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

Sue Monk Kidd

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.

Koren Zailckas

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected...

Noam Chomsky

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

Charlton Heston

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

American Amaranth

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

More than three fourths of all Americans are vitamin D-deficient.

Athlete's Edge: Faster, Quicker, Stronger with Vitamin D

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Killosophy

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

Notable American Women

4 in 5 Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, which begs the question: Are 1 in 5 Americans retarded?


Sleepwalking is restercise

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger