4 Bill Bryson Quotes on Society

Bill Bryson quotes on society

2. When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

12. We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. [Copenhagen]

32. Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.

57. Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968]. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.