Top 100 America Life Quotes
#1. In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
Chris Barber
#2. I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
Edward Kennedy
#3. Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?
Philip Dray
#4. There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.
John Doolittle
#5. My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."
Ronald Reagan
#6. The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
#7. I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
Tom Coburn
#8. We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.
Colin Firth
#9. 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
Pablo
#10. I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
David Hare
#11. I believe the family is the foundation of America
and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.
Mitt Romney
#12. The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life.
Dasha Zhukova
#13. Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
Rick Larsen
#14. We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!
Homer
#15. The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.
Paul Haggis
#16. Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Henry Miller
#17. Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.
Brian Koppelman
#18. Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.
Jennifer Armintrout
#20. And it is awful here, there is no other way to say it. But I believe that Detroit is America's city. It was the vanguard of our way up, just as it is the vanguard of our way down. And one hopes the vanguard of our way up again. Detroit is Pax Americana ... America's way of life was built here.
Charlie LeDuff
#21. In Europe and Japan, bourgeois life lingers on. In Britain and America it has become the stuff of theme parks. The middle class is a luxury capitalism can no longer afford.
John N. Gray
#23. People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
Rand Paul
#24. You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Boothe Luce
#26. And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight
So unawares comes on perpetual night,
And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.
Anne Bradstreet
#27. Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.
Tommy Chong
#28. It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
James A. Baldwin
#29. I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.
George H. W. Bush
#30. My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
#31. When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
Robert Kennedy
#32. America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster
#33. This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.
Charles B. Rangel
#34. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him - but he was a good and faithful horse.
-Frank
From "Eulogy for a Percheron" in "The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems
Greg Seeley
#35. My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.
Hillary Clinton
#36. Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
Simon Mainwaring
#37. Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
George Will
#38. I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.
Lysette Anthony
#39. America you are beautiful ... and blessed ... The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.
Pope John Paul II
#40. I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
Randy Weber
#41. I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?
Jayma Mays
#42. My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.
Cameron Conaway
#43. My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Jim Ramstad
#44. Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
Michael Moriarty
#45. I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.
Kiera Cass
#46. The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
Arundhati Roy
#47. The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
#48. Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'
Sung Kang
#49. The importance of patience and communication. Having a child and husband, working crazy and unpredictable times for shows, and traveling to teach dance around America can make life a bit stressful. I have had to learn to communicate with everyone attached to my life no matter what the circumstance.
Allison Holker
#50. At the bitter end of an era of liberation - women's lib, kids' lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib - America has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.
Billy Graham
#51. I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#52. I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.
Martin O'Malley
#53. Nowhere is America's unease with reproduction better demonstrated than on a 1952 episode of "I Love Lucy." The TV comedy made the bold move to incorporate Lucille Ball's real-life pregnancy into its storyline. The actors, however, weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant.
Anonymous
#54. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Barack Obama
#55. Where America was founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Sharia was founded on death, slavery, and the pursuit of power.
Nick Adams
#56. Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.
Cornel West
#57. When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
Wendy Kopp
#58. Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.
Letitia Baldrige
#59. Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
Gary Shteyngart
#60. Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.
Stephen Colbert
#61. When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
Betty Friedan
#62. Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#64. Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.
Johnny Isakson
#65. The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
Anna Quindlen
#66. He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#67. The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#68. Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'
John Fugelsang
#70. If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.
Shane Smith
#71. The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
Simon Heffer
#72. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
Jack Kerouac
#73. Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.
Rush Limbaugh
#74. I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.
Leeza Gibbons
#75. If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.
George Catlin
#76. As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
Ben Mendelsohn
#77. I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.
Nicki Minaj
#78. Everything I've ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
Thomas L. Friedman
#79. Destroying America will be the culmination of my life's work.
George Soros
#80. My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.
Prince Royce
#81. The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
Scott Pelley
#82. My life is the direct product, if you will, of the legacy of the blood, sweat and tears of the NAACP and so today I'm particularly mindful that the NAACP has made America what it is, and certainly made my life possible and we are all grateful heirs of that legacy.
Cornell William Brooks
#83. Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#84. As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
Jon Meacham
#85. There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, "What?" Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha - ?
Lorrie Moore
#86. My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
Marco Rubio
#87. When relatives asked, "How is your life in America?" my father would answer, Nandito pa rin kami. We're still here.
Alex Tizon
#88. There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
Mother Teresa
#89. The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
R.J. Rushdoony
#90. I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.
Teju Cole
#91. The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos
#92. The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.
Keith Miller
#93. I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.
Henry Johnson Jr
#94. It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.
David Spade
#95. My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.
Masiela Lusha
#96. Unlike my father and millions of Chinese, everyone in America - every man, woman and child, whether rich or poor - has the freedom to choose, freedom to shape his or her own destiny. Don't you agree that you can better manage your own life than other people can?
Helen Raleigh
#97. I have been a huge fan of America, as I find their way of life there is pretty unique, and I have enjoyed a lot of good times over there.
Michael Schumacher
#98. Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
Earl Campbell
#99. America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion ... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.
Frank Pavone
#100. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
D.H. Lawrence
