Quotes of: Fellow-americans Keyword

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

Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.

Anthropology of an American Girl

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

The Americans

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

The American Storybag

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The American Soul: TK

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

How to Make an American Quilt

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

How to Make an American Quilt

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence