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We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. By Osama Bin Laden Americans Worst Thieves World Today

I love the British. By David Mamet British Love

Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel. By Garret Keizer Americans Irreverent Spayed Brash Constraint

Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans. By Thom Yorke Americans Cheese Ugly Unwashed Clods

Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true. By Brittany Maynard Americans Bucket List Dream True

After all, Americans can be terrifying. By Connie Willis Americans Terrifying

I'm afraid of Americans. By David Bowie Americans Afraid

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. By David Letterman Usa Apparently Today Survey Percent

The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book that never stated truthfully the facts of our invasion or the cruelty we had to endure for generations. By Leonard Peltier America Screen Generations Cared Felt

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen. By J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur Scotch Irish French Dutch Germans

The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic ... I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans. By Oscar Wilde Americans People Extremely Interesting Reasonable

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it. By Yahtzee Croshaw Americans Superman Selfappointed World Kind

Americans are so dumb! By Bjork Americans Dumb

The great silent majority. By Richard M. Nixon Majority Great Silent

[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures. By Sheena Iyengar Americans American Choice Lens Humans

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels - practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval. By Geoffrey Wood Remember Americans Philosophically Speaking Mongrels

I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded. By Ichiro Ozawa Americans Monocellular Simpleminded Talk

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. By Meir Kahane Americans People Decent Great Problems

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. By Nancy Astor American America Stars Newspapers Populated

Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money. By Eddie Huang Carpetbaggers Compass Enabled Money Culture

America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people. By Philip Roth Gamesh Smiling Roland America American

Americans like fat books and thin women. By Russell Baker Americans Women Fat Books Thin

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake. By Ruhollah Khomeini Satan Americans Snake Great Wounded

Anonymous young men with all-American bone structures. By Sylvia Plath Anonymous Structures Young Men Allamerican

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be. By Robert Wuhl Rich Odd Afford

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan. By Anthony Lewis Americans People Germany Japan Passionately

Chinese people themselves, they really want change. By Dalai Lama Chinese Change People

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can. By Alfred Harmsworth Ohio Oregon Toledo Portland United

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country. By Gore Vidal Americans War Death Sickness Clever

The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind. By Pope Pius Xii American Actions People Great Genius

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. By Alain Prost Americans Mentality Money Talk

I'm very American. By Norah Jones American

I think Americans have big hearts. By Gene Sperling Americans Hearts Big

We are Americans best when we are not Americans first. By Russell D. Moore Americans

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. By Miles Kington Americans Criticize Buy Taste Money

Gringos! They have copied us again By Luis Alberto Urrea Gringos Copied

And I think Americans are phenomenal people. By Joe Miller Americans People Phenomenal

You." So they said, "You'll kill our poor women. You'll kill our children." This is By A.w. Tozer Kill Women Children Poor

More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it. By Chuck Todd Americans Gun Thought Anecdotes People

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility. By Leo Rosten Danerians Americans Wallonians Pirenians Polled

The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato. By Bauvard French Potato People Sophisticated Culture

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. By Matt Damon Americans Million Understand Water Toilet

Helping each other out, that's America. By Chris Kyle America Helping

You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be tamed, so that when those things are awakened in you , they have the strength of ravenous lions, too long imprisoned. By Louisa Edwards Americans Desires Tamed Lions Imprisoned

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. By Matt Taibbi Americans Things Job

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill. By Lionel Barber Americans Hill Capitol Audience Category

Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for. By Brian Reade Strangers Schools Americans American Wonderfully

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill. By Leonard Cohen English German Kill License

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. By Mark Twain Englishman Person Things American

We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide. By Feisal Abdul Rauf Americans America Muslims Doctors Bankers

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thingafter exhausting every other possible alternative. By Winston Churchill Americans People Alternative Wonderful Thingafter

I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are. By Charles B. Rangel Americans People World Wellintended

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. By Henry Cisneros People Americans Cando Enthusiastic Problemsolving

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world. By Meital Dohan World Modern Pretty America

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans By David Mccullough Americans Kindled Remarkably People Earth

I'm a voyeuristic American. By Casey Wilson American Voyeuristic

We Americans ... bear the ark of liberties of the world. By Mark Twain Americans Bear World Ark Liberties

Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties. By Mikhail Bulgakov Visitors Foreign Varieties Impressed

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why. By Kitty Burns Florey Trousers Language Sticks Cat Hair

Once upon a time the English knew who they were. By Anna Pavlova English Time Knew

Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio. By Ernest Hemingway, Americans Ohio Train Dayton Plenty

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book? By Michael De Luca Thing Remember Book

The American Dilemma, By Michelle Alexander Dilemma American

Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. By Michael Moore Americans Planet Possibly Dumbest People

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English. By H.l. Mencken English Americans Illegitimate Children

American men are like women. By Bikram Choudhury American Women Men

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. By Marianne Williamson Americans People Wise Good Times

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled. By Noam Chomsky American Appalled Confident Population Slightest

Monkey People? They By Rudyard Kipling People Monkey

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire. By Julia Child Americans French Hamburger Hache Hambourgaire

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them. By Will Rogers Americans Feed Close

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. By Conor Oberst American History Immigrant

reaches the American consumer, only one American worker has physically touched the final product: the UPS delivery guy. By Enrico Moretti American Ups Reaches Consumer Product

And Englishmen like posing as gods. By E. M. Forster Englishmen Gods Posing

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt By Jesse Jackson American Hispanic Arab Jew Native

The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight. By Elfriede Jelinek Majority Abundance Fight Ignorant Possess

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong. By James Frey Time Wrong People Told Found

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. By Georges Clemenceau Americans Thought Coffee Capacity Abstract

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. By Demetri Martin Ohio American Brian Statistics Average

A third of all Americans think that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks on September 11.3 Nearly a quarter still think that there's no solid evidence that smoking kills.4 And as recently as 2007, 40 percent of Americans believed that scientific experts were still arguing about the reality of global warming.5 By Naomi Oreskes Americans September Saddam Hussein Smoking

But they're already singing our praises!""They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything. By Scott Westerfeld Americans Praises Singing Toot Horns

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum. By Mick Jagger Americans People Museum Funny Shock

themselves and their own By Benjamin Franklin

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them. By Peter Capaldi Americans Great Sort Wit

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. By E. V. Lucas Continent Americans Country Languages People

If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists. By George Washington Africa Asia Europe Workmen Good

Americans are artisans in freedom. By Derrick G. Jeter Americans Freedom Artisans

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. By Jose Antonio Vargas America Asian White Black Latino

America is a willingness of the heart. By F Scott Fitzgerald America Heart Willingness

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. By Ralph Steadman Americans Funny Thing Earth Adopt

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. By Robert Frost Americans Rich Father Wishes Knew

We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary. By Steve Toltz Ordinary Country Stupid Place Twentyplus

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things. By Frances Mayes America People Things Straightforward Dislike

Our friends, the enemy. By Pierre-Jean De Beranger Friends Enemy

I love America. I love Americans. By John Lydon America Love Americans

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. By David Cameron British Passengers Drivers People

We go to Europe to be Americanized. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Americanized Europe

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. By Eric Idle Python English Americans People Element

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig. By Joseph Pilates Americans Animal Miles Hour Walk

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. By Pablo Picasso Americans Men Women