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
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Famous quotes containing the word americans:
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, & I am not enough in sympathy with our “gros public” to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One’s friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don’t think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most déplacé & useless class on earth!”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)