American Dream Quotes
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American Dream Quotes & Sayings
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
— Anthony Bourdain
Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.
— David Pratt
You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream
— Warren Zevon
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream
— Warren Zevon
The American dream is under assault.
— James A. Forbes
Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.
— Frank Lautenberg
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
— Ted Cruz
I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.
— Mike Medavoy
Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.
— William McKeen
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
— Mia Love
Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
— Andrew Lincoln
He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he's not still hungry. If he is, I'll give him the illusory dessert known as the American Dream.
— Jarod Kintz
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
— Nicholas Kristof
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
— Craig L. Thomas
If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
— Jim Jordan
The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.
— Lenny Wilkens
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,
— Arthur Miller
I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up.
— Sara Paretsky
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
— Douglas MacArthur
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
— Ronald Reagan
Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?
— Bob McDonnell
I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.
— Shuji Nakamura
The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
We are going out again in search of the American dream.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
— Blanche Lincoln
People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.
— Latrell Sprewell
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
— Susana Martinez
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
— Cheryl Hines
Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.
— Howard Schultz
The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
— James Altucher
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
— Charles B. Rangel
Butt fucking the American dream so you can buy cheap T-shirts at Old Navy. Isn't life beautiful?
— Shane Kuhn
For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
— Bernie Sanders
The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare."~Unbreakable Heart
— Kimberly Kinrade
I've absolutely lived the American dream.
— Rick Scott
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
— Camille Paglia
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
— Max Beerbohm
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Creativity is the lifeblood of American ingenuity and the yellow brick road to the American Dream.
— Ashfaq Ishaq
The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.
— Herman Cain
That American Dream that y'all fight so hard for over there ? The freedom that you would die to protect. They're yours too, you know.
— Kristen Proby
Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?
— Slavoj Zizek
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
— Donald Freed
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
— Leonard Boswell
Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.
— Ted Cruz
However, here's a warning you may want to heed about the American dream-read the fine print!
— J.C. Phillips
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
— Dave Barry
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
— Jill Robinson
I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.
— Adrian Grenier
I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.
— Kenneth Lay
A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial.
— Jarod Kintz
Fitzgerald's plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.
— Maureen Corrigan
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
— Jon Kyl
Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.
— Henry Bonilla
While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
— David Platt
Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.
— Bobby Jindal
There are no lobbyists for the American Dream.
— Arianna Huffington
I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.
— Eddie Izzard
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
— Julian Castro
The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
— Theodore White
The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.
— Penelope Trunk
The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
— Bill Hicks
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
— Barbara Mikulski
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
— John Oliver
I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.
— Elizabeth Warren
The American dream is still to own your home.
— Barry Sternlicht
The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
— Harvey Milk
Forever 21 is my American Dream.
— Do Won Chang
Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?
— Michelle Malkin
A dream doesn't become reality ...
— Colin Powell
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
— Marsha Blackburn
I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
— David Platt
The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
— Gerald R. Ford
Pop art is
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! — Robert Indiana
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! — Robert Indiana
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
— Michael Bloomberg
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
— Ronald Wright
I really have the American dream licked.
— Ted Nugent
He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular
Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews
Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews
The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
— Mario Batali