What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. —Jerome K. Jerome More about this quote Tags: blessing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. —Charles Morgan More about this quote Tags: love God surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Absence - that common cure of love. —Lord Byron More about this quote Tags: love absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When composer Igor Stravinsky was fifty-seven, he settled in the United States and a year later decided to apply for American citizenship. He made an appointment to see the appropriate official. At his first interview the official asked the famous composer his name. "Stra-vin-sky," he replied, speaking each syllable distinctly. "You could change it, you know," suggested the official. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: change USA names citizenship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So at last I was going to America! Really, really going, at last! The boundaries burst. The arch of heaven soared. A million suns shone out of every star. The winds rushed into outer space, roaring in my ears, "America! America! —Mary Antin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. —Franklin D. Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: USA revolution immigration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens. —Grover Cleveland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight. —Jesse Jackson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people. —Jay Leno More about this quote Tags: humor white people Native Americans immigation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities. —Theodore M. Hesburgh More about this quote Tags: history religion America race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans — you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude. —Bono More about this quote Tags: politics love expectations America fandom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice — between our aims and what we actually do — creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith. —Helen Gahagan Douglas More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The liberals are saying that this guest-worker program . . . is really just a way to depress wages and create a permanent underclass of exploited labor. To which the president said, "And the problem is? —Bill Maher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. —Shirley MacLaine More about this quote Tags: friends travel familiarity strangers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email