105322 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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"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn"

John Cotton Dana, Author

"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

Paul Harris

"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"Information about the package is as important as the package itself"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them"

Michael Steele, Politician

"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"My motto - sans limites"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"After each war there is a little less democracy to save"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"

Bob Seger, Musician

"I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial"

Bert Williams, Entertainer

"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status"

Facebook

"The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken"

Henry W. Longfellow, Poet

Henry W. Longfellow

"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children"

Albert Shanker, Educator

"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people"

Lydia Sigourney, Poet

"Don't give advice unless you're asked"

Amy Alcott, Athlete

"True strength is delicate"

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Sculptor

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that"

Michael Moorer, Athlete

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"None of us is as smart as all of us"

Phil Condit, Businessman

"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"

Russell B. Long, Politician

"Don't fix what's not broken"

Robert Atkins, Doctor

Robert Atkins

"Gentlemen prefer bonds"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

"Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy"

Edwin Edwards, Politician

Edwin Edwards

"Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer"

Adrian Belew, Musician

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time"

Catfish Hunter, Athlete

"At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips"

Allen Johnson, Athlete

"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world"

Al Franken, Comedian

"They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"If there's one thing Democrats are good at, it's killing American jobs"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"I started a college campus-based nonprofit in June 2012 called Turning Point U.S.A. to target millennials in college. Our mission was to create a powerful conservative grassroots activist network on campuses and identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

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