#erica

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. ↗

— Maya Lin

#american #american dream #being #calling #dream

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #art #aware #become #began

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#again #america #best #dream #earth

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#american dream #could #dream #education #entire

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#america #care #cheaper #common #costs

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#american #american people #bring #good #invest

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#believe #both #create #cut #decisions

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#appetite #enjoy #existing #future #glorious