American
American(s) may refer to:
- A person or attribute of one of the nations of the Americas
- Americans, citizens or attributes of or from the United States of America
- See also: Citizenship in the United States, Names for United States citizens
- The indigenous peoples of the Americas
- A person of American ethnicity
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Famous quotes containing the word american:
“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)