Famous quotes containing the words ugly and/or american:
“Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)