Country Quotes

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom.

Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.

The principle I believe in is the principle of protecting our nation. I believe that the United States has the right to attack any country it views as a threat at a time and place of its choosing.

Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters.

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people attacking each other in parliament and stuff.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

We've never had a female President in this country, which I find stunning

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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

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

Thank you to country radio for believing in me.

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

Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign 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.

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.

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

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.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

We all know what we mean by fighting terrorism. In reality, there is total cooperation between the countries north and south of the Mediterranean against terrorism.