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America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.
— Chris Van Hollen
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
— Sergio Leone
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
— Charles E. Rosenberg
My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.
— Zoltan Istvan
Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?
I did. — Jack Kerouac
I did. — Jack Kerouac
The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
— George H. W. Bush
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
— Herman Cain
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
— Louis Kronenberger
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
— Rebecca Solnit
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.
— Camille Paglia
Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.
— Brian Koppelman
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
— John Jay Chapman
When relatives asked, "How is your life in America?" my father would answer, Nandito pa rin kami. We're still here.
— Alex Tizon
In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.
— Bill Bryson
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
— John W. Gardner
The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
— E. M. Forster
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
— August Wilson
In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
— Penelope Wilton
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
— Richard Rosen
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
— James A. Baldwin
I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.
— Leeza Gibbons
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
— Condoleezza Rice
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
— Henry James
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
— Vicki Baum
That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
— Ron Fournier
There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.
— Junius Williams
Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
— Audre Lorde
You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.
— America Ferrera
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
— Kenneth Rexroth
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
— Simon Heffer
What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
— Josephine Baker
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
— Clare Boothe Luce
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
— Rita Mae Brown
My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.
— Masiela Lusha
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
— George S. Patton Jr.
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
— J.D. Salinger
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
— F. LaGard Smith
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
— Meryl Streep
I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
— Anne Roiphe
I decided to write the book I wanted to read
— David A. Lottes
Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.
— Tommy Chong
Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
— The Prophet Of Life
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
— George Takei
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
— Andrew Tobias
55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.
— Howard Schultz
My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.
— Juliette Binoche
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
— Earl Campbell
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
— Madeleine Albright
Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.
— Persis Khambatta
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
— William Dean Howells
The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.
— The Prophet Of Life
always carry yourself like you just got best photo in America's Next Top Model even if your life constantly feels like you're on the bottom two.
— A. Theodore Steegman
I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.
— Hector Tobar
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
— George Carlin
I have never seen so much male hotness in one place in my entire life," Rach rasps. "I fucking love America.
— Siobhan Davis
Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.
— Ezra Koenig
If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today.
— Rush Limbaugh
Pull down your pants! I've heard about nigger-cocks my whole life but never seen one!
— Stephen King
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
— Henry Hampton
It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.
— Erica Jong
It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
— Jeb Bush
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
— Langston Hughes
One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory ... Powerful and profoundly moving.
— William Kittredge
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
— Davy Jones
My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.
— Terri Windling
Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.
— Jen Hatmaker
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
— Wilfrid Sheed