Hyphenated Quotes

#1. The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.

Tom Weston-Jones

#3. Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#4. Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

Jim Yong Kim

#5. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Algernon H. Blackwood

#6. I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

Kris Kristofferson

#7. The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

John Wayne

#8. As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

Kit Harington

#9. The reality is that when you visit Italy, you'll be hijacked by relatives of all sorts; the entire family tree is waiting to meet you. [A hyphenated Italian's risk]

Ivanka Di Felice

#10. I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

Guillermo Verdecchia

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. 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

#13. Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Storm Jameson

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

Bobby Jindal

#15. History teaches us hope.

Robert E.Lee

#16. They tore Joseph coat of many colors as evidence of his death and dreams but God brought together his life for his People, to prepare them posterity

Ikechukwu Joseph

#17. Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see.

Joe Novella

#18. The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines.

Loretta Gatto-White

#19. Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from.

Margaret Stohl

#20. 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

#21. A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

Munia Khan

#22. there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural

Joe Novella

#23. There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

Bob Dole

#25. Surrender means cleaning the window so light can enter.

Kamal Ravikant

#26. [Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds ... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

Paul Auster

#27. I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

Bobby Jindal

#28. My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Alice Cary

#29. You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Ron Paul

#30. We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

Kevin DeYoung