283 Quotes About American

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

America is my mother and my mother is my responsibility.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

… I've got to believeMy grief will end. I can’t see myself,I speak in panic outside a Malibu fishCounter, Pacific slippery as bed silk.My friend says she sees me anyway,Feeds me cold tinned juice. You’re rightHere. She's laughing as motorcycles roarPast as chrome American hog dazzlers.I’ll sing the worlds ‘til you remember them.

Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they're far more willing to try new ethnic foods... It's like adding a few new spices to the kitchen pantry.

It is always a pride to die as an American.

At the table next to them sat an old woman and a young man, and across from these two another man, slightly older, apparently an American. The old woman and the young man, her grandson, spoke to each other in one language, and to the American in another. The placing of their lunch order was a strange mixture of languages and accents, the young man ordering for the old woman, following her lament on the size of the portions.

You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, but—I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn’t matter to me what country you’re from. You women are fucking stupid, and I’m tired of saving you. All of you.

Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, an European, an African or an Australian!