americans

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction if the weather looks fair he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intruded upon he advances by stages of acceptance by levels of agreement by steps of concurrence.

Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.

Florida: God's waiting room.

A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization the first permanent civilization in America.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

New York the nation's thyroid gland.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passengers being Americans are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.