American Symbolism Quotes

The working men of Europe felt instinctively that the Star Spangled Banner carried the destiny of their class.

A Harvard professor is an educator who thinks the American Eagle has two left wings.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

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

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

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

What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.

The Eagle has landed.

Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

In America, we see a fan and it is like, 'Oh, we are proud! We have a fan in America!'