Country Quotes

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.

Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?

To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

Country music will never be the same.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

Women are strangers in the country of man.

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

If your country's in war there ain't nothin' you can do exceptin' help

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.

My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

What I've accomplished for myself is beyond my wildest dreams. What I accomplished for my country is one of my most proud achievements.

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

I think it's much harder for anybody who voted Remain to have credibility amongst the voters who voted to leave in terms of leading the country. It's not impossible, but it's much harder.

The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.