Quintessentially American Quotes

#1. I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

Martin Freeman

#2. My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Eric Schneiderman

#3. A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.

Rajon Rondo

#5. Fate is an obligation I don't understand
the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

Andrew X. Pham

#6. Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesn't come any more marked than here.

Tibor Fischer

#7. As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

#8. I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

Cheech Marin

#9. In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered?

James Franco

#10. Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#11. I am Prince Horace!"
"And I'm the Grand Turnip of China!" cutwater snickered.
"Dim-witted villains!" shouted the Prince. "I command you to turn us loose.

Sid Fleischman

#12. Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

Ed Sheeran

#13. Being religious is quintessentially American.

Denis McDonough

#14. Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.

Simon Sinek

#15. Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

Rachel Caine

#16. Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17. I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#18. It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.

Alan Dershowitz