It
is impossible for a stranger traveling through
the United States to tell from the appearance of
the people or the country whether he is in
Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety
million Americans cut their hair in the same
way, eat each morning exactly the same
breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with
precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into
bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to
look and act as much like all the others as they
can.
-- Lord
Northcliffe
The main thing that endears the United Nations
to member governments, and so enables it to
survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can
safely appeal to the United Nations in the
comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-- Conor Cruise
O'Brien
1917-, Irish
Historian, Critic, and Statesman
Is
America a land of God where saints abide for
ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad,
where flows the crystal river? Certainly not
flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for
the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are
but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and
cliché-shouting publicity agents. Their little
knowledge bringing them nearer to their
ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to
death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
-- Sean O'Casey
1884-1964, Irish
Dramatist
One can not be an American by going about saying
that one is an American. It is necessary to feel
America, like America, love America and then
work.
-- Georgia
O'Keeffe
American painter
