Country Quotes

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.

I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.

I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that.

I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

I spoke in the United States of America and in Canada and other countries already have good results with immigration, that it cannot be compared everything to Europe.

He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.

In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]

In every country dogges bite.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.