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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"You're never a loser until you quit trying"

Mike Ditka, Coach

Mike Ditka

"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song"

Carl Perkins, Musician

"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections"

Meg Greenfield, Editor

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation"

D. Elton Trueblood, Educator

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"

Richard Baker, Politician

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

Nat Turner, Activist

Nat Turner

"You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run"

Kenny Rogers, Musician

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Democrats have long been the party of voter fraud"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"The truth is that while those on the left - particularly the far left - claim to be tolerant and welcoming of diversity, in reality many are quite intolerant of anyone not embracing their radical views"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"No nation was ever ruined by trade"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty.""

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone"

Steven Wright, Comedian

Steven Wright

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

Steven Wright, Comedian

Steven Wright

"There is no substitute for hard work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

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