Charlaine Harris Quotes

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

The American Motion Picture Industry will do all within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

God Bless America

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

This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.

God bless America. I am American. I'm very patriotic. I love this country.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

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.

God bless the America we are trying to create.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.