American Romanticism Quotes & Sayings

I learned to give him the ball ... — Magic Johnson

Nice girls, nice women, don't survive violent attacks. — David R. Wommack

And in his image, man created god — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. — Louis Simpson

It was not so much rebellion that fueled the German youth movement (as it did in the American youth movement of the 1960s); rather, it was romanticism. — Andrew Root

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be. — Imelda Staunton

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur. — Kathy Freston

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) — John Piper

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

What can you do when you don't fit in? What can you do when life seems to be passing you by?"
"Follow me. I want to show you something. See the horizon over there? See how big this world is? See how much room there is for everybody? Have you ever seen any other worlds?"
"No."
"As far as you know, this is the only world there is, right?"
"Right."
"There are no other worlds for you to live in, right?"
"Right."
"You were born to live in this world, right?"
"Right."
"WELL LIVE IN IT THEN! Five cents please. — Charles M. Schulz

Life is not meant to just zoom from the womb to the tomb. Slow down ... Enjoy the Journey! -RVM — R.v.m.

All around the world, people want to be loved. — Justin Bieber

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. — Marcus Aurelius

I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart. — Laura Vandervoort

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. — Camille Paglia

We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era's creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA. — Clement Alexander Price

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. — Gunnar Myrdal

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose? — Susan Orlean

Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ... — Orson Scott Card