Country Quotes

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

The small countries of the world are as important as the big nations.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.

We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.

Ill never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.