Country Quotes
I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world
The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
I've worked with pythons and such in a couple of movies, and I had to wrangle around, but I was okay. Still, if I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by them.
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.
And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.
Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.
I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.
Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.
We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.
Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
Mexico is a country we Americans should be cultivating a positive dialogue about how we work together to make ourselves more secure and more competitive vis-a-vis the rest of the world.
The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.
What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.
They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.
I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.
We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.
They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.
The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.
