#erica

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#america #born #committee #economic #industrial

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#baseball #deeply #fan #fathers #rooted

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#carrying #comes #cross #flag #will

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#americana #away #bit #country #country music

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#american public #delays #diplomatic #limited #patience

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#age #because #citizen #female #i

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. ↗

— James Laughlin

#american #deal #excuse #going #good

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#america #country #extraordinary #i #new