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:
“Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)