Famous quotes containing the words native, american and/or ancestry:
“If Los Angeles has been called the capital of crackpots and the metropolis of isms, the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the citys idiosyncrasies to the newcomerat least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“[If] Playboys Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth century: I buy it for the fiction and I buy it for the interview.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
—Ignatius Donnelly (18311901)
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