105303 Quotes by American authors

American voices swing between defiance and tenderness, mixing porch talk with courtroom thunder, hymnals with barroom jokes. The sayings lean toward motion, road-tested, restless, certain that the next turn matters, and they test ideas like tools, not ornaments. Humor undercuts sermon, dissent stands beside loyalty, and hope keeps arguing with experience. From prairie plain speech to borough quickfire, the language favors verbs over lace, a handshake over ceremony. Edge meets empathy, contradictions are carried honestly, and words still try to shove the world forward.

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"I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"Education is the transmission of civilization"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows"

Ralph Marston, Writer

Ralph Marston

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

Robert A. Heinlein

"Desire creates the power"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

Robert H. Schuller

"Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

Thomas Hooker

"So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

Thomas Hooker

"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"Action conquers fear"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"You can't start at the top"

Elmer G. Letterman, General

"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man"

Huey Newton, Activist

Huey Newton

"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

Aldo Leopold

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

Aldo Leopold

"The more things you do, the more you can do"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

Lucille Ball

"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

Julian Casablancas

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"The older I get the better I used to be!"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

Lee Trevino

"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter"

Brad Henry, Politician

Brad Henry

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

Elie Wiesel

"It is better to rust out than wear out"

Edwin Markham, Poet

Edwin Markham

"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy"

Dan Gable, Athlete

Dan Gable

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

Everett Dirksen

"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters"

Evander Holyfield, Athlete

Evander Holyfield

"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror"

Pappy Boyington, Soldier

Pappy Boyington

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