“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?” PeopleFirstsAgeAmericaCertainAsksHouseShotsCatchers Author:Marisha Pessl
“I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.” Would BeAmericaCertainCultureElementsMusic IsShameDrainsSuggesting Author:Johnny Otis
“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.” PeopleIfsWorldDoneGovernmentActionAmericaFacesCertainNamesResponsibilityDemocracyEffectsTaxesAuthorityVoteUltimateSilentFinanceAround The WorldOfficialsEmpoweringPassiveAcquiescence Book:The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World Source: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
“I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.” HumansAmericaCertainCausesEndureTrialsTriumphHardshipHuman Freedom Author:Cordell Hull
“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.” DreamAmericaCertainCultureInterestDemocracyPersonalityAspirationClashMobility Author:David Brooks
“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.” PeopleHas BeensSelfAmericaCertainFreedomMoralGreatnessCommitmentDestructiveSelf Destructive Author:John W. Gardner
“To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayWantedAmericaCertainFeltWalksReadyMonthsSurpriseWoodsStuckSmokeThis DayTrafficJamAmerica TodayForebodingTraffic JamKeennessWalk In The WoodsStuck In Traffic Author:Bill Bryson
“To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger.” WorldAmericaCertainValuesForceJusticePowerfulExampleOvercomingStrongerTerroristTroopsClosingExtremismCapturedVigilantOur TroopsDetentionGuantanamoGuantanamo Bay Author:Barack Obama
“The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.” PeopleWorldWayWellsMeanDifferentAmericaCertainIndividualProjectsAppreciateCinemaThrowing Author:Jack O'Connell
“We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.” KnowsAmericaPoliticalCertainNextOne ThingMilitaryRegardLogicalLatinElitesLatin AmericaCubanSuccessorsCastroChavez Author:Mark Falcoff
“Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.” PeopleWantSoulAmericaCertainPlanetsLogicPrisonSouthSuburbsSouth AmericaImmaculateOptimum Author:J. G. Ballard
“In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.” ThinkingGovernmentAmericaCertainToo MuchCongressSpending Author:Gertrude Stein
“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.” PlayHandsEyeAmericaCertainWinningLostChanceLosingWorthyKneesOpponentsEngagedCombatTicketsContestsAbyssGlamourChances AreGambleLotteryGloomyDaisiesSnobYawningLottery TicketWorthy Opponents Author:Barbara Holland
“Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.” SometimesAmericaCertainActorsOceanEuropeWine Book:A Kind of Magic Source: A Kind of Magic
“I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me. It is not an either/or proposition. But there are some people who hold fast to certain religious beliefs.” PeopleChildrenCountryAmericaCertainBeliefReligiousRacismMy ChildrenPropositionsReligious BeliefHold FastEither Or Author:James Peterson
“I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.” PeopleBelieveI CanTodayAmericaCertainSituationSupportExampleAbuseGrossCompoundsFundamentalistAmerica Today Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.” LongChristianAmericaCertainPassionChristCivilizationMessagesExtraordinarySeedsIslamicPassion Of The Christ Author:Michael Moriarty
“I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.” LongAmericaRememberCertainTurnsEventsKingsProportionTragicLutherBobby Kennedy Author:Richard Schiff
“We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low.” PeopleWorldHumorAmericaPoliticalCertainMilitaryThis WorldLowsTerrorAdministrationMissilesMadmenMoralePolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.” StillsAmericaCertainHonorMarriedWorthyTemporaryAdulthoodCitizenshipMysticalPassportsIntangibleRespectabilityNot Worthy Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.” LooksWarStatesAmericaCertainUnitedDealsUnited StatesSupportExampleColdCirclesPropagandaSovietCold WarIdeologicalClumsySoviet Propaganda Author:Alexander Haig