I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.”
Source: The Submission: A Novel
“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.”
Source: The pursuit of wilderness
“In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.”
“In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.”
“In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.”
Source: The great depression, 1929-1941
“In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.”
“In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.”
“In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.”
“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”
“In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.”
“In America we have across the country, the entire world.”
“In America, we have an education system where we mass produce high school and college graduates that leads us into a false sense of security that wise people who came before us figured out what we need to know to have the best possible life and that when we have completed our education that knowledge has been imparted to us.”
“In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza.”
Source: Food: A Love Story
“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.”
Source: Poemas, 1963-2000
“in America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequently law has become very important in this country. Lawyers and law are what hold us together. There is no ethos.”
“In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.”
“In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.”
“In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need to have optimism that the world can be a better place, and we can leave a legacy for our children. Being bilingual, travel and studying geography, culture and religions can help.”
“In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.”
Source: We Need New Names
“In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.”
“In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.”
“In America we're seeing the emergence of Donald Trump, who's the anti-establishment candidate, if you will, who's bucking all the conventional political wisdom on the basis of the fact that so many Americans feel that they've been left behind by the political system and that it's working to entrench advantage by insiders, rather than advantage the people of that country.”
“In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's appreciably impacted the quality of life of autistic people, regardless of their place on the spectrum. Quite frankly, we've spent $1bn figuring out how to make mice autistic and we'll spend another $1bn figuring out how to make them not autistic. And that's not what the average person wakes up in the morning aspiring to. They think: am I going to be able to find a job, to communicate, to live independently, either on my own or with support? Those are the real priorities.”
“In America, when a man walks in front of a woman it may imply that they are not equals and he is exerting dominance over her, or being arrogant and rude. In a different culture, however, it may be presumed that he is someone worthy of profound respect and is protecting her by going first.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“In America with the Olympics when you not only have a medal but a gold medal all of a sudden people come out of the wood work and you're treated a little bit differently. I guess that's where my personality is, that's where I just can't get used to all this.”
“In America you can get away with murder, but not with sex.”
“In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.”
“In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.”
“In America you get as much justice as you can afford.”
“In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.”
“In America you make your plans and then they happen.”
Source: The Newlyweds
“In America you need a bodyguard to go out.”
“In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?”
“In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.”
“In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.”
Source: Enough is Enough
“In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.”
“In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.”
“In America, and no doubt elsewhere, we have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products. This is a black book, this is a gay book, this is an Asian book. It can be counterproductive both to the literary enterprise and to people's reading, because it can set up barriers. Readers may think, "Oh, I'm a straight man from Atlanta and I'm white, so I won't enjoy that book because it's by a gay black woman in Brooklyn." They're encouraged to think that, in a way, because of the categorization in the media.”
“In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.”
Source: How to wage a successful campaign for the Presidency
“In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.”
Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge
“In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.”
“In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they want to each other... whether it's marrying multiple partners, marrying someone of the same sex, prostitution, marijuana. As long as you're not hurting anyone else, it's really none of the government's business.”
“In America, black is a country.”
Source: Home: Social Essays
“In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.”
“In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.”
Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
“In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.”
“In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.”
“In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.”