Famous quotes containing the words falls and/or americans:
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)