285 Quotes About Americans

There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word “exit” which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :”No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.