American Historical Quotes

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen”
― Bailey Bristol, Love Will Follow

“Pearls are perfection provided by nature. They are the only gems that do not require enhancing by man.”
― Peter Von Perle

“In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson”
― Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte