Henry Adams Quotes

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

New Brown America represents a whole generation of kids that are descendants of either immigrants or immigrants themselves, that are coming to America, enriching what it means to be an American.

Most Americans are very cool people.

I am a normal American.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American.

I'm so tired of people saying you have to look a certain way to be American.

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

America is one long expectoration.

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.