Paul Engle Quotes

I believe in the country America used to be.

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

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

America is the result of the amalgam of three people: Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

There are over 400 parks in all 50 states that represent our country and that are enriched with stories that tell about how our country became what it is today. There is a lot of history frozen in these places.

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

When you're driving into D.C. as a young kid and you go over the Key Bridge and see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Capitol Building, they become a part of the landscape for you. You are also constantly in contact with this idea that history, and the people that made it, are being remembered.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country's beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.