American Quarter

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:

    “Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed and would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and bad dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)