Linux Ethnic

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until
people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its
name to "America".
                -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
                -- Allen Ginsberg

American by birth; Texan by the grace of God.

Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.

Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a
phenomenon, not a civilization.
                -- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venus"

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
                -- A Chinese child

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
                -- A.P. Herbert

Anything anybody can say about America is true.
                -- Emmett Grogan

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
                -- P.J. O'Rourke

Baseball is a skilled game.  It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
        -- The Best of Will Rogers