Country Quotes

All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

America still is an exceptional country. We love to lead and we love to win. And we do it, when we take on any challenge and when we take - we support our friends.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Science belongs to no one country.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

Can a country's people be better than its planes?

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

For love of country, they accepted death.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

I always thought of this as God's country.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.