Quotes of: American-troops Keyword

American GI Cook: Up bright and early, General? Uh, breakfast? Patton: Am I to understand that my officers have already finished eating? American GI Cook: Uh, well, we're open from six to eight. Most of the men are just coming in now. [Indicates two ...

Patton

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

African-American

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

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

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Democracy: An American Novel

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

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

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

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

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

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

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they did was persist

Gravity's Rainbow

I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear sign of a racial infiltrator who has not done enough research.

How to Be Black

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part of it-a dream which was about one quarter hope and three quarters bitter disillusionment.

American Years

A blanket could be used as an American flag. It could keep the world warm with its patronizing patriotism and imperialism. 


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Dreams are what keep us growing. they are what keep us alive...io give up is to let our dreams die..........

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

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

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and ...

Virginia Postrel

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Am...

Ron Eglash

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream