American Icon Quotes

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.

The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.

I wear the black for those who never read.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.

John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.

John Lewis is an icon in our society.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?