Oscar Wilde Quotes

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

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.

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

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

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

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

To the world, you are America.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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.

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.

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

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.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.