Quotes by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

Gun

Horse

Land

Although the Jeffersonian Law (“All men are created equal”) is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

Equality

Law

Men

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

America

Country

Race

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.

Golf

Meadows

Rotary

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

Enthusiasm

Two

Years

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation’s television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Different

Identity

Trying

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

Air

Car

Land

But afterall it’s not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It’sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

Rain

Sunset

Winning

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Music

Music Is

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Generosity

People

Spring

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Air

Ambition

America

Art

Beach

Believe

Best Friend

Blue

California

Car

Causes

Character

Children

Christian

Christmas

Cities In The World

College

Computer

Country

Curiosity

Cutting

Different

Enthusiasm

Equality

Europe

Facts

Fall

Feet

Fellow Man

Food

Games

Generosity

Golf

Gun

Habit

Hollywood

Holy

Home

Horse

Identity

Ifs

Intelligence

Land

Law

Listening

Lunch

May

Meadows

Men

Mind

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Quotes by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke

Although the Jeffersonian Law (“All men are created equal”) is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation’s television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

But afterall it’s not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It’sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

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