Country Quotes
It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.
I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.
A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.
Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.
Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.
Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.
Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.
Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.
We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.
Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.
There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.
I compete all over the world, so I travel two or three times a month and spend at least six months a year out of the country.
There's no doubt in our minds we can play with the best teams in the country - if we play well.
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.
The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.
I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.