John Steinbeck Quotes

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

When you look at what makes America great, what makes America, you know, not great, our ups and our downs, Springfield represents all of it.

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

The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are we, Americans? What is our nation? We are not an ethnostate with identity rooted in shared blood. The option of a white man's republic ended at Appomattox.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.