America quotes
Allen William 1889-1949
America- the best poor man's country in the world.
Bailey Philip James 1816-1902
Festus
America,thou half-brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land.
Barzun Jacques
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
Benchley Robert 1889-1945
Pluck and Luck
In A merica there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Berlin Irving 1888-1989
„God Bless America"
God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
Buck Pearl 1892-1973
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation,as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
Clinton Bill(William Jefferson)1946-
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is riht in A merica.
Deloria Jr.Vine
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, and Indian said simply „Ours."
Donne John 1572-1631
„To His Mistress Going to Bed"
Licence my roving hands,and let them go,
Behind,before,above,between,below.
O my America,my new found land,
My kingdom,safeliest when with one man manned.
Fitzgerald E.Scott 1896-1940
America is a willingness of the heart.
George W.L. 1882-1926
The true America is the Middle West,and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
Gould Bruce
In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
Gowans Alan
By the of probability,North America ought to speak French, not English,today.
Hughes Langston 1902-1967
„I,Too"
I,too,sing America.
I am the darker brother.
Kennedy John F. 1917-1963
(on proposed Civil Right Bill)
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America-there are no „white" or"coloured" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Leacock Stephen 1869-1944
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Lewis Sinclair 1885-1951
Babbitt
In other countries,art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeting on booze and spaghetti,but in America the
successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
McCarthy Mary 1912-1989
On the Contrary
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Osborn Robert
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
Pitt William(The Elder) 1708-1778
You cannot conquer America.
Riney Hal 1932-
(slogan for Ronald Reagan's election campaign)
It's morning again in America.
Sandburg Carl 1878-1967
One of the greatest necessities in America is no discover creative solitude.
Sondheim Stephen 1930-
West Side Story
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!
Stein Gertrude 1874-1946
The Geographical History of America
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.That is what makes America what it is.
Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965
In America,any boy may become president,and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Stoppard Tom 1937-
You could say you'd seen the future after visiting America.I don't think you could add: „and it works."
Updike John 1932-
Picked Up Pieces „London Life"
America is a land whose centre is nowhere;
England one whose centre is everywhere.
Updike John 1932-
Problems „How to love America..."
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
Wesley John 1703-1791
Journal
I went to America to convert the Indians ;but oh, who shall convert me?
Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Zangwill Israel 1864-1926
The Melting Pot
America is God's Crucible,the great Melting- Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
