Country Quotes

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.

I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

It's not that we don't have talent in our country; the talent is, in fact, not required today.

If there's anything I can do, it's to present an alternative vision for the country.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.