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:
“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)
“The Americans are violently oral.... That’s why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all—isn’t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“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)