People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Quote by Alistair Cooke

Topics: Feelings Quotes, Nations Quotes, People Quotes

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It...

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace...

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

It's an acting job - acting natural.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans...

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans...

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but...

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but...

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer