A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.”
“America,
How to sing
Our name,
Singular,
Signed,
Singed.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“America, I know we have our problems. I realize that the scale and our waistline
are foremost among them. I’m willing to make concessions, I really am. I drink, and prefer, skim milk. I’ll take water packed tuna over oil packed tuna any day. I can stomach low-fat ranch or I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Anything. I’ll even look the other way on sugar free ice cream (believe me that one hurts), but I’ll be darned if I’m gonna let somebody take my delicious delicious pig fat from me. I’d rather die.”
Source: It's Called Helping...You're Welcome
“America, I think, is about poor people playing music and poor people sharing food and poor people dancing, even when everything else in their life is so desperate, and so dismal that it doesn't seem there should be any room for any music, any extra food, or any extra energy for dancing. And people can say that I'm wrong, that we're a puritanical people, an evangelical people, a selfish people, but I don't believe that. I don't want to believe that.”
Source: Shotgun Lovesongs
“America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.”
“America I warn you if you invite me into your home
I will linger,
losing, kissing my beloveds frankly,
pulling up radishes
and capping all your pens.”
“America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.”
“America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.”
“America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing away from God, his incomparable blessings, and the moral foundation that made America great, and advancing toward a mythical utopia where mankind is in control of mankind (think "Lord of the Flies").”
“America inevitably "brings the distant near" because apart from members of the Native Nations, all of us originated in faraway places. Sadly, proximity within the United States doesn't automatically generate friendship. But if we choose to cross borders that may at first bring discomfort and open our hearts to those who seem like strangers, I believe that we can be transformed and united as individuals, families, communities, and even as a country.”
“America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that you don't want to deal with that subject again, before you know it, the desire comes back to do it yet again.”
“America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.”
“America is a beautiful country with an ugly government.”
“America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.”
“America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait.”
“America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.”
“America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.”
“America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.”
“America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.”
“America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.”
“America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.”
Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life
“America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.”
“America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.”
“America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a sense of trust. That has to be an assignment Trump takes personally. And that has to be more than trust me because trust me never works in the long run as a model. It's just - it's not possible.”
“America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.”
“America is a country no one should go to for the first time.”
“America is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks.”
“America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Americans, and now the new Americans are being thrown off their land by the corporations.”
“America is a country of excess.”
“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”
“America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.”
“America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.”
“America is a country that believes in redemption.”
“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.”
Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
“America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.”
“America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“America is a country that went through an extremely difficult set of circumstances out of 9/11. And we've survived it as a country, and I think we've survived it as one people. And we all ought to be concentrating on trying to make sure that we move forward as one people out of that terrible experience.”
“America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.”
“America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.”
“America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.”
“America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.”
“America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.”
“America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.”
“America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.”
“America is a divided country; we have always been a divided country, but even more divided now, thanks to Trump and a lot of other things, as well.”
“America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.”
“America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.”
“America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.”