#american

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow. ↗

— Kiichi Miyazawa

#american workers #brow #come #ethic #i

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#anita #anything #european #found #including

I am an American. I love this country. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#american #country #i #i am #i love

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison ↗

— Sean Liburd

#reading #toni-morrison #writing-life #life

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#food #goes #households #i #purists

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#american #jhumpa-lahiri #life #money #the-namesake

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz. ↗

— Janette Rallison

#cheese-whiz #food #humor #leprechaun #food

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#enthusiasm #humor #humor