Quotes of: American-spirit Keyword

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

Lincoln Steffens

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

Kimi Raikkonen

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Howard Mumford Jones

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.

Paz Vega

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

The Transhumanist Wager

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these thing...

Sarah Lacy

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destro...

Mark Levin

The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Ida B. Wells

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

Ellen Tauscher

So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Edward Dahlberg

Pulling out onto the highway I noticed a stone pillar commemorating the Donner Party. They were a true testament to the American spirit, push forward at all costs and eat the dead when necessary. Wasn’t that the American dream in a nutshell.

Beautiful, Naked & Dead

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust...

Charlie Pierce

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Roland Allen

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Patrick Henry

Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar...take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn: Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen or excessive diaphoresis; anger may be manifested...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures