“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.” WayStillsCountryStatesLastsSportsUnitedUnited StatesSawsSeeingOne ThingMissingChangedWesternMy WayLast TimeGreat SportsPristineHitchhikingOpen Road Author:Edward Ruscha
“Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.” KnowsWorldCountryMatterSexCitiesSawsFlightSex And The CityFlight Attendant Author:Ron Livingston
“I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?” MindLooksSaidCountryGuyOpportunitySidesHoursSawsSellingDirtGlancesThat GuyTennesseeGreat Country Author:Bill Hicks
“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.” MenWorldBelieveCountrySawsLandGardenFortuneSpotsSettlingTexasCowboyProspectsTexanWest Texas Author:Davy Crockett
“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.” WorldIdeasCountryAgeWantedSawsPaperSpringBoundsEveningParisThirtyPensBrushesPencils Book:Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point Source: Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point
“I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.” LongSaidCountryDoneHandsRealityHoursSawsProveClockPushingSessionLegislatureStatutesTravestyPushing OnProve Me Wrong Author:L. Neil Smith
“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.” PeopleIfsMenWellsSelfCountryWisdomGovernmentPoliticalFatherPoliticsIndividualSocialWealthLibertyEnemyEconomySawsRightsEconomicRepublicanSucceedUnderstoodFlowPropertyInsightExperimentsLiberalismEnterpriseFoundingOur Founding FathersPolitical PowerFree EnterpriseIndividual LibertySelf-governmentEconomic Power Author:Ronald Reagan
“What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.” PeopleMeanCountryPoliticsSawsNorth Korea Author:Dennis Rodman