Great American Quotes

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

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

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

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

Losing is the great American sin.

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

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

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag. America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.

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

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

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

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.