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“Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.”

Believe May Able America Found Sound Common Raised Divorce Accepted Ridiculous Over It Equations

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.”

America Sound Voice Optimistic Repeats Monologues Metallic

Author:Vance Palmer

“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Trying America Song Asks Sound England Accents

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.”

Heart America Sound Voice Silence Morning Fields Strange Spring Bird Areas Towns Harmony Lays Woods Dawn Score Stillness Surroundings Chorus Eco Marshes Blight

Author:Rachel Carson

“Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.”

“There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.”

America Sound Church Issues Fairs Clock Sunday Usual Pretext Steeples Medley

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn't sound like the America I know.”

People Knows Kind Littles States Facts Helping Use America Sound United United States Week Middle Killing East Rebel Middle East Blunders Little Help

Author:Bill Maher

“Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.”

School America Sound Heard Halls Like Something

Author:Nicky Whelan

“Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.”

People Real Sometimes America Wish Sound Voice Party Cities Strange Lonely Gas Great People

Book:Addresses of President Wilson

Source: Addresses of President Wilson

“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.”

Wells May America Nations Sound United States Security Position Son Morality Deserve Blessed Income Theology Creeds Adopted Disregard Being Blessed

Author:Agnes Repplier

“In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.”

Knows America Sound White Race Students Taught College Incredibles Exaggerated Disdain White Race

Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I

Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I