Home / Topics / America Quotes

America Quotes

Browse 13505 quotes about America.

America Quotes

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

Thinking Years Children Wanted America Moving Grows Sides Animal Boys Growing Up Nice Years Ago Twenties East Profession Jungle Columbus Wild Animal East Side

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.”

“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.”

Littles States America Guy Values Fighting Levels United United States Growing Up Growing Areas Discrimination Valleys Framework County Poorest Colorado

Author:Ken Salazar

“So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.”

Knows Dream America Found Growing Up Growing Possibility Filled Excitement American Dream Living The American Dream

Author:Mia Love

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.”

Want America Deals Class Growing Up Growing Stress Core Defined Working Class

Author:Geoff Dyer

“In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.”

Ifs America Grows President Boys Growing Up Vices Vice President

Book:How to wage a successful campaign for the Presidency

Source: How to wage a successful campaign for the Presidency

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

Children Today America House Parent Born Chance Growing Up Growing Couple Married Europe Reverence Units Sweden Unmarried Married Couples

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.”

America Young Grows Watches Growing Up Tvs Female

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.”

“My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.”

People Running America Growing Up Growing Middle Style Boots Cowboy Jeans Oklahoma Personal Style Cowboy Boot Middle America

Author:Suzy Amis

“When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.”

America Remember Opportunity Growing Up Rich Growing Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Get Rich

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.”

America House Growing Up Growing Sick Russia Horrible Treated Asthma Ambulance

Author:Gary Shteyngart