#erica

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ↗

— Pat Paulsen

#face #immigration #immigration policy #indian #part

The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt’s dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins’ oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy’s idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city. ↗

— John Updike

#art #thomas-eakins #art

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#chaps #explaining #go #going #how

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America? ↗

— Matt Lauer

#conservatives #liberals #list #lot #more

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american families #american jobs #best #concern #create

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#america #conquest #different #fifty #great

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#america #certain #dignitaries #gone #government

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. ↗

— Gary Locke

#been #culture #diversity #ideas #religion

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire. ↗

— Heather Swain

#friendship #humor #vampires-in-america #friendship