America - Americans Quotes

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

America is composed not of two sorts of people but of two frames of mind: the first engaged in doing what it would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

What ever happened to that good old American quality – grit?

There are no second acts in American lives.

Albert Einstein would be just another slave-laborer in the Soviet Union or the Third Reich if it were not for the U.S.

America is so decadent that its brilliant children are damned almost before they are born.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Associate: Forget it, Mr. Goldwyn, its about Lesbians. Goldwyn: That’s okay, we’ll make them Americans.