#america

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#believe #built #christian ethic #end #ethic

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#away #care #comes #efforts #helps

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#america #bird #calls #every #i

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#american #because #been #country #everything

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#director #i #i think #important #just

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. ↗

— Robert Plant

#closed #eyes #having #i #long

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#been #books #highly #i #look

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#carbon #chain #comes #corn #eat

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#america #animal #boy #charley #columbus