Pastoral Resources

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Americans never quit.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.