Quotes of: American-troops Keyword

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The Closing of the American Mind

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The Closing of the American Mind

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

Cowgirls: Women of the American West

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart

Bits of You & Pieces of Me

A new day is a new beginning, a new life to live!

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Dreams are what keep us growing. They are what keep us alive. To give up, is to let our dreams die.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Maybe our job in life is to help a person run a little farther, to try a little harder, to not give up.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Be thankful for the simple things and God's love and you will never be disappointed when life gets hard.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors...

Hollis Stacy

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration s...

Ben Shapiro

I’ve got a piece of the American Dream. I don’t have a house, but I do have a new chandelier. Now I just have to build a house around it.

$3.33

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

American Vampire, Vol. 1

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

An American Childhood

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

An American Childhood

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream