Country Quotes

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are in the world, you can sing this.

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.

If a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so?

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.

The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country.

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

America is not a country, it is a world.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

I don't think we have thought of ourselves, at least in a modern iteration, as being a nationalist country or a country that has nationalist movements.

A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn't think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

The city is recruited from the country.

I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.