285 Quotes About Americans

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

Just like I am no longer a girl.I am a Middle Eastern girl.A Syrian girl.A Muslim girl.Americans love labels.They help them know what to expect.Sometimes, though,I think labels stop them fromthinking.

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.

Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.