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America Quotes


"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."



"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."


"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."


"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."


"Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America."



"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."


"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."


"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."


"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."


"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""


"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia."



"My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution."


"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."


"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."


"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."



"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."


"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."


"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."


"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."



"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."


"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"


"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."



"I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry."
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