Uniquely American Sayings

#1. Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. -

Cecelia Ahern

#2. I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Gail Godwin

#3. I am hurting. The tears don't come anymore. They don't have the guts to anymore. I know that if I fail at that, it will mean the death of me.

Abigail George

#4. America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.

Michael Oren

#5. I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

Len Wein

#6. I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Atticus Shaffer

#7. What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

#8. Regardless of how dead we feel in a crowd, we cling to the uniquely American assumption that associating is good and necessary and solitude is suspect.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#9. Our uniquely human capacity for sorrow at the deaths of those who are strangers to us is built on an evolutionary substrate. Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals.

Scientific American Editors

#10. To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Anais Nin

#11. The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#12. If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

Harry Chapin

#13. There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

Dean Cain

#14. Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely American.

Charles Murray

#15. I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

Keith Carradine

#16. The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.

Seth Adam Smith

#17. An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

Jack White

#18. I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

Ed Koch

#19. The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Mitch Daniels

#20. It's never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.

Sarah Dessen

#21. Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

Shawn Amos

#22. The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.

Richard Norton Smith

#23. When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

Jane Green

#24. The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Andrew Weil

#25. Perseverance. Force of purpose. Indomitable will. Those traits were once uniquely part of the American DNA. But they've been weakening for some time.

Ryan Holiday

#26. You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.
To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

George W. Bush

#27. Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian ... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.

Mark Noll

#28. Yes. Happiness, anxiety, sadness, anger and disgust. It's none of those. So it might be . . . wonder.

Jill Dawson

#29. Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Dick Van Dyke

#30. I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

Edgar Winter

#31. Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Henry Louis Gates

#32. There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

Hanya Yanagihara

#33. We don't usually talk about American nationalism, but it is a mark of how deep it runs that we apply the word "nationalism" to Serbs, Russians, and others, while believing ourselves to possess a uniquely superior version called

Barbara Ehrenreich