Famous Quotes: America

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
Use this quote  

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
Use this quote  

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
Use this quote  

The very important thing you should have is patience.
Use this quote  

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Use this quote  

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
Use this quote  

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
Use this quote  

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
Use this quote  

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
Use this quote  

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
Use this quote  

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Use this quote  

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Use this quote  

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Use this quote  

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
Use this quote  

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Use this quote  

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
Use this quote  

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
Use this quote  

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
Use this quote  

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
Use this quote  

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
Use this quote