#american

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#bad #countries #latin #latin american #lot

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#born #die #i #i was born #live

I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#american #before #best #cup #europe

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#american children #children #dominant #factor #lives

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community. ↗

— Saul Williams

#african-american community #always #aware #because #been

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. ↗

— Ted Williams

#baseball #better #boy #chance #else

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#came #charles #colony #first #name

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak. ↗

— James Wolcott

#american people #beltway #bill #bill clinton #clinton