Country Quotes

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

It is of great importance to me to be an example for young people of my country.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

If the whole country had to have the same conversation that was safe for everybody, it would be a pretty awful place to live. There wouldn't be a conversation.

Money has no country.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign country.

The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths.

Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.

Thank you to country radio for believing in me.

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as a country, you know, then we don't have a religious test in this country.

If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

The poetry of country music will survive.

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.