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America and Americans
«People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
America and Americans,
Funny
| Keywords:
cab, cabs, engine, get along, radio, sharing, The New Yorker, tires
«On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life»
Author: Eleanor Holmes Norton
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American values, blacks, detour, detours, family values, forgo, forgoes, forgoing, on the road, organization, The Detours, The Organization, treatment
«People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.»
Author: Florence King
| About:
America and Americans,
Dreams,
People
| Keywords:
American Dream, consequently, fantasize, fantasized, fantasizing, human error, switch
«Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.»
«People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.»
«Protectionism is the ally of isolationism, and isolationism is the Dracula of American foreign policy.»
Author: William G. Hyland
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
ally, Dracula, foreign policy, isolationism, protectionism
«People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
America and Americans,
Feelings,
Nations,
People
| Keywords:
oyster, settler, The Settlers, travelers
«President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.»
Author: Conan O'Brien
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Clinton, President Bush, President Clinton, signed
«Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
black and white, black flag, blue, brown, flag, rainbow, red flag, yellow-brown, yellow
«Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Liberty,
Military,
Politics
| Keywords:
establishments, form of government, inauspicious