Hyphenated Americans Quotes

#1. I lost a whole continent.
a whole continent from my memory.
unlike all other hyphenated americans
my hyphen is made of blood.
when africa says hello
my mouth is a heartbreak
because i have nothing in my tongue
to answer her.
i don't know how to say hello to my mother.

Nayyirah Waheed

#2. I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

Bobby Jindal

#3. I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

Rafael Cruz

#4. I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

Bobby Jindal

#5. In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

David Antin

#7. He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

Dee Marie

#8. I'm not really the nurturer type.

Maura Tierney

#9. If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Jean Paul

#10. There is a fine line between a carefree spirit and a fear of failure

Brad Meltzer

#11. [I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.

Yugo Nakamura

#12. Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.

Michael Buckley

#13. A culture finds the gods it needs.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#14. Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.

Jason Medina

#15. Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.

M.B. Parkes

#17. The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and re-possessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be set out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes,* as real or affected taste for it prevailed.

Jane Austen

#18. Raised a finger, pointing out a door. Wax gave her a nod and crouched

Brandon Sanderson

#19. But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results.

Marco Scutaro