America quotations

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◆ America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ P.S. May, don't these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

- Kiera Cass99

◆ I want to go to all the topless bars in America and try to sell every single one of them a roof.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

- Kiera Cass99

◆ America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

- Alexis de Tocqueville99

◆ If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

- Bill Hicks99

◆ This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

- Jack Kerouac99

◆ So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

- Jack Kerouac99

◆ Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!

- Bill Hicks99

◆ People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson99

◆ We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts

- Hunter S. Thompson99

◆ I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

- John Steinbeck99

◆ Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

- George S. Patton Jr.99

◆ In America we were given freedom, some of us choose to honor that freedom and some of us choose to take advantage of it.

- Wazim Shaw99

◆ Happy Memorial Day to past, present and fallen soldiers. Today we honor you and salute you for defending our country and our freedom.

- Sonya Parker99