Quotes on America

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”

Kiera Cass

“You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.”

Kiera Cass

“What am I supposed to call you?Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.”

Kiera Cass

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“I have to return some videotapes”

Bret Easton Ellis

“Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?”

Ian Frazier

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

Sierra D. Waters

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

Tamanend

“Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 NLT”

Eddie Johnson

“They aren't sure who killed the little girl's mother yet. So you should be in the clear. But they have this cop living in the building. He's a detective. The kind that sneaks around, not minding his own damn business.”

Sharon Carter

“Don't forget you are with him for sex only. Remove the cobwebs as Sarah suggested. Have fun like auntie said. You don't have to get to know him.”

Sharon Carter

“And I imagined this, his hug, his body, him, being my safe-heaven. My normal. My bad days, my good days. My every day...”

Elena Armas

“How to care for the injured body,the kind of body that can't holdthe content it is living?”

Claudia Rankine

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

George F Will

Hating the Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko

Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.

George Washington Carver

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

Madam C.J. Walker

As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen.

Oprah Winfrey

Rise and shine! Today is another chance to chase your dreams and inspire those around you.

Unknown

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Maya Angelou

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts – good relationships feel good.

Oprah Winfrey

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

Don’t ever underestimate the power of faith and love to change everything.

John Lewis

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

Maya Angelou

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Rosa Parks

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

Good morning! Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

Good morning! Remember, where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them – just find a new way to stand.

Oprah Winfrey

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.

Jay-Z

Make every morning a fresh start. Focus on the possibilities, not the obstacles.

Unknown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.

Maya Angelou

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.

Ben Carson