Country Quotes

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

Every country needs another country to make fun of.

I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.

It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

Some Americans just shouldnt leave the country.

Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

In his own country, Death can be kind.

It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind.

Building walls does not make any country great again.

Germany and other countries have protested to the U.S. We have to make it clear again and again that millions of jobs in the U.S. depend on trade with the EU.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

Leaving his country for his country's sake.

The country crowd just has fun.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.