Country Quotes

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country will never notice whether we pass a budget resolution or not.

As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

[Donald Trump] is trying to stop immigration into the country from countries where there are major terrorist issues until we can figure out what is going on, but this seems like something else.

I hear people say Donald Trump is going to destroy the country. The country's going to be changed forever. I don't know if I agree with that.

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country!

Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!

If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!

In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.