Quotes of: American Keyword

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

William Nicholson

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webster

It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.

Louie Gohmert

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In man...

Michael Haneke

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

Teju Cole

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

Beau Bridges

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

Fareed Zakaria

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Cedric Richmond

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Jackie Chan

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

J. C. Watts

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

four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.

The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Lee Siegel

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

Norman Lear

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Kit Bond

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Max Beerbohm

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Blanche Lincoln

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Alice Walker