American Classics Quotes

#1. But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Russell Banks

#2. I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

Aarti Sequeira

#3. The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau

#4. God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.

Jenny Downham

#6. I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

J.G. Ballard

#7. When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Ser Tomaso," she said. "It is very likely we will all die."
"Or worse," said Brown, the first words he'd said in days. Ser Tomaso made a brave face.
"Perhaps," he said. "But we will eat well.

Miles Cameron

#9. Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation

Leon Trotsky

#10. I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.

Thomas H. Cook

#11. I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

Shawn Johnson

#12. I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound. - Carol Kennicott

Sinclair Lewis

#13. I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings ... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.

Ellsworth Kelly

#14. The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.

David Baltimore

#15. Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

W. H. Auden

#16. I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

Rebecca Goldstein