Quotes of: Fellow-americans Keyword

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

Adam Rayner

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Blake Anderson

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Karl Rove

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Donna Brazile

Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that t...

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.

African-American

Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.

African-American

Whoever has a tail of straw should not hesitate near the fire.

Latin American

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse,

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.

The Cycles of American History

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

Guitar: An American Life

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

How to Be an American Housewife

People who seek the truth never stop looking for it

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

Brit Hume

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

Sue Monk Kidd

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.

Koren Zailckas