American Political Figure

Famous quotes containing the words american, political and/or figure:

    “Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don’t take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    “We are concerned now, however, about natural, not political limits.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends—and he accepts it.”
    —Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)