Born American Theoretical

Famous quotes containing the words born, american and/or theoretical:

    “Although it is generally known, I think it’s about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.”
    —Groucho Marx (1895–1977)

    “Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selves. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because you’ve grown into another one.”
    —Amanda Theodosia Jones, U.S. beauty contest winner, Miss U.S.A., 1973. As quoted under the pseudonym “Emma Wright” in American Dreams, Prologue, by Studs Terkel (1980)

    “There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)