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“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

“We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.”

Men Needs America Values Grows President He Man Men And Women Tables Contribution Rural America

Author:John Salazar

“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

“Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars.”

People Littles Long America Beautiful Film Courses Stars Grows Havens Fruit California Fairy Native North America Flavour Film Stars Importation

Book:Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.”

“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

“America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.”

“America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.”

Country America Nations Grows Fortunate Folly

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.”

Character America Grows Tough Active Contribution Shells Formation

Author:Anais Nin

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“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.”

“We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.”

Way Needs America Grows Numbers Majors Commitment Innovation Investment Oil Dependence Infrastructure Manufacturing Rebuilding Foreign Oil

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won't hate you”

Knows Soul Body Kids America Mother Hate House Grows Darkness Air Hate You Fresh Air Old You

Book:Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition

“If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.”

Ifs World Looks Government America Grows Experiments Smallest

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.”

America Grows Worry Debt Inappropriate

Author:Warren Buffett

“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Source: Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream