Country Quotes

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.

America is greatest country; but not our government.

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

I have respect for leaders who defend the interests of their countries. Angela Merkel policies are positive for Germany, but they are unfortunately harmful for all other countries.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!

It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You should be proud of what you have achieved through devolution.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.