United States

Explore 2893 quotes by people from United States

Sort

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mark Twain

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Gorky Incident. 1906.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "The Gorky Incident." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

Donald Trump

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon

Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Trump, Donald. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2017, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

We need a new Government for a new century, humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves... The preeminent mission of our new Government is to give all Americans an opportunity, not a guarantee but a real opportunity, to build better lives.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon

Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Orson Welles

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Welles, Orson. Interview to celebrate his 70th birthday. The Times, 6 May 1985.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

Fred Rogers

Buy The World According to Mr. Rogers from Amazon Buy The World According to Mr. Rogers from Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 0

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 146.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is...I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way.

Steve Jobs

Triumph of the Nerds

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

Watch Triumph of the Nerds at Amazon Watch Triumph of the Nerds at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Triumph of the Nerds. Directed by Paul Sen, narrated by Robert X. Cringely, Johnb Gau Productions for Channel 4 and Oregon Public Broadcasting, Channel 4/PBS, 14 Apr. 1996.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

Heard by a telephone operator on September 11, 2001 on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 as Todd Beamer and other passengers planned to storm the cockpit. Minutes later, the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Beamer, Todd. Quoted in "A Sky Filled with Chaos, Uncertainty and True Heroism." Written by Charles Lane, Don Phillips, and David Snyder. The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 2001. Originally overheard by a telephone operator. United Airlines Flight 93, 11 Sept. 2001.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Skinner, B. F. "New Methods and New Aims in Teaching." New Scientist, 21 May 1964.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Earhart, Amelia. Letter to George Putnam. 2 July 1937.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt/Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Buy Catch-22 at Amazon Buy Catch-22 at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 9.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

If in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice.

James A. Garfield

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon

Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Garfield, James A. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1881, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

You are the un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Paul Robeson

Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12th, 1956.

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

J. Paul Getty

Quoted in Observer

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Getty, Jean Paul. Quoted in The Observer. 3 Nov. 1957.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.

John Updike

Quoted in The New York Review of Books

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Updike, John. Quoted in "God's Country" by Michael Wood. New York Book Review, 29 Feb. 1996.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year.

Edgar Allan Poe

American Whig Review

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan, [published anonymously]. "Ulalume: A Ballad." American Whig Review, Dec. 1847, st. 1.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Ulalume - A Ballad." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 1.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television—you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

Buy The Philosophy of Andy Warhol at Amazon Buy The Philosophy of Andy Warhol at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.

George H.W. Bush

Read the full transcript of this speech at millercenter.org

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Bush, George H. W. Address before a joint session of Congress. 6 Mar. 1991, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. "Letter III." Letters from the Earth. Harper & Row, 1962.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, letter 3.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.