American Buffalo Quotes

#1. I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

David Mamet

#2. I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.

James Howard Kunstler

#3. [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Lewis H. Lapham

#4. I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

Ted Nugent

#5. There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

Val Kilmer

#6. I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

Tiger Woods

#7. Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

Evangeline Lilly

#8. Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Boys believe nothing can harm them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

George R R Martin

#10. From nowhere we came; into nowhere we go. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot Blackfoot Warrior Chief 1890

#11. Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.

P.J. Parker

#12. A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

Sitting Bull

#13. America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.

Edward Snowden

#14. Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design.

Richard Moe

#15. Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

Michael Gove

#16. Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq

Conan O'Brien

#17. My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

Helene D. Gayle

#18. I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

Paul Engle

#19. But you can do one, you can do the other, or you can do both - meaning fight it out but be in a place that's more comfortable.

Donald Trump

#20. At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.

Anasazi Foundation

#21. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.

Anasazi Foundation

#22. My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream.

Thomas Perez

#23. Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Walter Russell