Quotes of: American-people Keyword

Where rich people can make honest money, poor people have to steal.

Gypsy

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people.

David Zayas

This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.

Dayron Robles

It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people.

The Fifth Elephant

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden Ahbez

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

Viktor Yanukovych

I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a little bell ought to ding in your mind. Some people don't know grief from garlic grits. There's somethings a body ain't meant to ge...

American Pie

I started going over the lines in my head for this French play I’m in at school. I play a rabbit called Janot Lapin, who’s the leader of a group of farm animals. It’s not the most interesting play in the universe, but we only know three verb te...

Stick Figure

Tex: Boy oh boy, you picked a bad time to fly, Billy. They're guerrillas all over the place blowing up planes and all. They hit four planes in four days. But I guess you young people don't read the news anymore. That, and with our people back home ki...

Midnight Express

Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has ben...

Conservatives Without Conscience

Hey you — All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothing to solve even as each moment is an answer.

Citizen: An American Lyric

Providing post-secondary and academic education to only 10 to 30 per cent of our prison population can translate to more than $60 billion a year added to state and national coffers.

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

(Prisoners) need an education. They need a GED to start with. Then they need some kind of training so when they get out they have a marketable skill. That way they can support themselves and they can support their families.

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

[...] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world." "Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?" "We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.

The Great American Novel

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

The Best American Essays 1995

If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family