“At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.” ChristianAmericaRateChristian InspirationalSymbolsEaglesVulture Author:Vance Havner
“I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.” ThinkingStillsSometimesAmericaPowerfulAttentionGoneSkyMastersOughtAuthorityBirdBillsCongressSymbolsRangeRanSoarEaglesHerdsSurveysSelectedBuffalo Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.” LightAmericaWhiteForestsSymbolsBurningSweepingCampingLanternsWhite LightCrazeLantern Light Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar
“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.” KnowsNeedsGivingChildrenFactsAmericaFormParentReligiousResultsSuccessfulPrideOughtEssentialsRewardsProductionsProducersThanksSymbolsMealsAbundanceSpiteHolidayCelebrationConsumptionSecularHarvestStarvation Author:Ayn Rand
“Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.” PeopleShouldIdeasSelfAmericaPresidentMoralPrideBillsClintonSymbolsCongratulationsArkansas Author:Charlie Pierce
“As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'” CharacterSeemsAmericaTurnsPoorStreetsWallCapitalismBlueSymbolsNervesAnxiousChipsJanePenniesGet RichMachoAustenMrs BennetBlue Chips Author:Maureen Dowd