Quotes of: American-revolution Keyword

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Palate In Revolution Grimod De La Reynie

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

Christiane Amanpour

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Ana Castillo

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

The Clocks

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Farmer Boy

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

I am becoming in coming undone. I unbind. I rise like the morning: revolution.

Binary Star

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

Birds Without Wings

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

Zhang Xin

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Tony Kushner

The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.

Ziad Doueiri

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Revolution in World Missions

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Literature and Revolution

Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

Sleigh Ride

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

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