Top Americans Quotes

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each...

Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotio...

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

America is not a country of immigrants, we are a country of pioneers.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, becaus...

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking ab...

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the w...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and everyone else. They [Americans] were almost all of them like that. And it definitely got Maigret’s ba...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a p...

It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either th...