John George - Americans

Americans

  • John George (Virginia colonist) (1603–1679), Virginia colonist, landowner, soldier and burgess in the Virginia House of Burgesses
  • John George (author), author of Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe
  • John George (BMX racer) (born 1958), former American BMX racing pioneer from the early and mid 1970s
  • John George (California politician), Alameda County supervisor for whom the county psychiatric hospital was named, activist and human rights pioneer
  • John George, Jr. (born 1946), American businessman, farmer, and politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
  • John George, US Army small arms expert and officer in Merrill's Marauders, author of Shots Fired In Anger

Read more about this topic:  John George

Famous quotes containing the word americans:

    The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others—this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world’s peoples.
    George F. Will (b. 1941)

    One day my mother called me ... and she said, “Forty-nine million Americans saw you on television tonight. One of them is the father of my future grandchild, but he’s never going to call you because you wore your glasses.”
    Lesley Stahl (b. 1941)

    The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)