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:
“What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
—Sean OCasey (18841964)
“We ask not pardon for ourselves but justice for all American women.”
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“Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before and I wish I was not I.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)