285 Quotes About Americans

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

There's no evidence from decades of Pew Research surveys that public opinion, in the aggregate, is more extreme now than in the past. But what has changed -- and pretty dramatically -- is the growing tendency of people to sort themselves into political parties based on their ideological differences.

The immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the national consciousness of an American.

They were so...larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude....She’d lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she’d come off her feet.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.

Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.