Country Quotes

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.