283 Quotes About American

  • Author Michael Pollan
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    American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

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  • Author Bridget Asher
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    In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe my ancestors were from. But here, I can just say it, Je suis Americaine. It feels good.

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  • Author Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

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  • Author James Morris Robinson
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    We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups. We are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans. The important commonality is the fact that we all bleed red. We are humankind.

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  • Author Ella Leffland
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    Sunday was like Monday. If you wanted to live on the sea, that was how you lived, and it was a good life. But nothing changed, and you didn't know how many years had passed until it came to you that you were tired at the end of the day, and that was the only way you knew you were old. (The Queen of the Ivsira)

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  • Author Dan Johnson
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    Let the record reflect that the supposedly robust American Democracy was no match for the twin assault of nineteen Arabs with box cutters and an African-American man who made everyone buy health insurance.

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  • Author Abhijit Naskar
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    Walk my friend – walk the walk of humanity while making your life an emblem of hope for thousands of our Americans.

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