Quotes for All
There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, ‘America Is Better Than Abortion.’ I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both – the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided … Read more
The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it’s going to help Africa … Read more
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. Ernie Harwell
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That’s my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there’s also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of … Read more
Americans never quit. Douglas MacArthur
How can we salute – encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people. Desiree Rogers
[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. Crowfoot
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset. Crowfoot
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. Crazy Horse
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy. Colin Powell