Quotes of: American-military Keyword

The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as when dwelling on the countenance and voice of a lovely girl. I am in love with .

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.

Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends

One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.

Bleed, Blister, and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier

But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.

A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's...

Jacques Villeneuve

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's ...

Per Petterson

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

American Vampire, Vol. 1

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

An American Prayer

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

The American Dream & The Zoo Story

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.

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

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

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

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s