American quarter or American Quarter may refer to:
- Quarter (United States coin), the 25-cent (quarter-dollar) denomination in American currency
- American Quarter horse, a U.S.-originating horse breed
- The American Quarter, another name for the New Orleans Central Business District (by contrast with the famed French Quarter)
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or quarter:
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“In the haunted house no quarter is given: in that respect
It’s very much business as usual. The reductive principle
Is no longer there, or isn’t enforced as much as before.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)