Great American Quotes

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
Mitt Romney

Success, Great, Business

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. Somerset Maugham

Great, American, Written

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
Michelle Obama

Love, Great, Give

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Dan Quayle

Love, Great, Game

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry

Great, Loneliness, Become

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Paul Getty

Great, American, Prosperity

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
Eric Stoltz

Great, Job, Writing

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Theodore Sturgeon

Great, Fire, American

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
John Green

Time, Great, Live

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.
Nikki Haley

Great, Business, Blessed

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow

Music, Great, American

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
J. D. Hayworth

Time, Great, History

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.
Bruce Babbitt

Great, American, Her

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo

Great, Today, American

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
Ty Cobb

Great, War, Game

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Edgar Winter

Music, Great, American

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood

Great, Person, American

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
Charlie Haden

Great, Respect, Done

A great American city is fighting for its life.
Marc Morial

Life, Great, Fighting

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes

Great, War, Person

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Laura Benanti

Great, Art, American

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
Morris Dees

Great, Job, Hero

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
William Nicholson

Family, Great, American

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
Benjamin Todd Jealous

Great, Greatest, American

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
John Gould

Great, American, Writers

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