An English audience leans back in its seat and says ‘we’ve paid for this, so you’d better entertain us and not just muck about’. An American audience leans forward in its seat and says ‘tell me’. “
America - Americans Quotes
Great importance attaches to the material comforts of life, and peace, freedom from care, security are all sacrificed to them. The American lives for ambition, the future, more than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.
Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, o’er insecticide waves of grain, and strip-mined mountain’s majesty, above the asphalt plains! America, America, man sheds his waste on thee! And hides the pines, with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea!
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours’.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Everywhere around the world They’re coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They’re coming to America Got a dream to take them there They’re coming to America Got a dream they come to share They’re coming to America They’re coming to America.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public […]
