6 Best American Dream Quotes

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. – Nick Carraway

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. – Nick Carraway

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. – Tony Montana

This is paradise, I'm tellin' you. This town is like a great big pussy just waitin' to get fucked. – Tony Montana

For us to live any other way was nuts. To us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about their bills were dead. I mean, they were suckers.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.