“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.” PeopleMayMadeEndsStatesRunningAmericaMovingTurnsReadingEasyUnitedHalfUnited StatesStupidHotSizeObviousLoudDozenDisplayCautionStatuesZoosSidewalkHabitatCannonsBronzePrimatesGorillasSan DiegoSuingLife Size Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.” StatesMovingOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicJudgmentEmbraceWestSyriaParticipation Author:John F. Kerry
“There's something about the American spirit - inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children - not just here in the United States, but all around the world.” WorldChildrenStatesPastMovingSpiritUnitedUnited StatesOur ChildrenMoving ForwardAround The WorldInherentSomething BetterAmerican Spirit Author:Barack Obama
“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.” PeopleWorldNeedsLongStatesProblemEarthMovingHumanityUnitedViewsCommonResponsibilityUnited StatesEnvironmentMilitaryBuildingBenefitsCommitmentBetter OffBad PeopleSuperpowerCommon HumanityShared Responsibility Author:William J. Clinton
“In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.” PeopleIfsMayStatesTodayMovingUnitedCompanyUnited StatesTomorrowColleaguesBusinessmanCompetitors Author:Akio Morita
“But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.” StatesWisdomMovingPoliticsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyCarLowsLiberalismQuantitySteelInflationFluid Author:John Chamberlain
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.” ImportantCountryStatesWholeFunnyMovingGrowthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicInternetCreatingEnvironmentalCongressEducationalProtectionImprovementMoving ForwardOur CountryRangeInitiativeProvenEconomic GrowthGoreEducational SystemEnvironmental Protection Author:Al Gore
“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.” StatesMovingFormForceUnitedDealsBehindsUnited StatesMovementRacismEvidencePrejudiceRacial PrejudiceResurgence Author:Shirley Chisholm
“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.” StatesMovingParentLossUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingBuilding Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.” WorldWellsMadeStatesMovingFormRealizingUnitedUnited StatesPlayerNew YorkBecomingMusicianJazzNotionAfrican AmericanRanTerritoryLunchOld FashionedHornsJazz MusicLinearDiscardedGrooveJazz MusicianAmerican MusicAfrican American MusicFree Jazz Author:Joe Sample