American Quotes

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone.

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in each other's home. They don't see their finished room until the end of the second day. They have no say what happens in their own home.

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.