Country Quotes

Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

We offer a new way for those people of Indian origin to make a difference in their country - and to make some money.

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

I love the Asian countries.

I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Elected presidents are for countries.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.