Henry James Quotes

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

I talk about my dad and the American dream, and I just want to say to Americans how fascinated we are by America. We would love Americans to look at the rest of the world that way sometimes.

Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

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

I admire American ideas.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Americans have endeavored to soar as high as European bards.

It is always upon the spirit that I lay stress. The world should know more about our spirit, for the world has tended to ignore Asiatic civilization. I am firmly convinced that the fundamentals of Asiatic civilization are just as good as the European

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.