Top 100 A Country Quotes
#1. America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.
James Altucher
#2. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.
Kim Dickens
#3. A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
Glenn Beck
#4. Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time.
Robert Harris
#5. You turn on the television, it's like, "Woah is me! God almighty, we're awful." We are so down and out we are - name me a country in the world, name me one leader anywhere in the world who wouldn't trade places in a heartbeat. We by far, we're going to own the 21st century.
Joe Biden
#6. Now by the laws of war, better than defeating a country by fire and the sword, is to take it without strife.
Sun Tzu
#7. It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#9. And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred that they feel against the ruling power.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#10. My mother on her death bed told me, 'Where the hell did that kangaroo come from!?' - it just popped out of nowhere and punched her in the head and caused a cerebral hemorrhage, so I thought I'd move to a country where there were no kangaroos!
Colin Mochrie
#11. When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.
Molly Ivins
#12. I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
Cass Elliot
#13. I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett
#14. We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
Nikki Giovanni
#15. I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.
Moshe Safdie
#16. It was a country ... that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
Wendell Berry
#17. What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.
Mollie Beattie
#18. Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
Ben Aaronovitch
#19. A stylized sun and moon, joined by a horizontal bar, floated above a country divided in two by a river that snaked between them.
Alan McCluskey
#20. Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.
Vladimir Yakunin
#22. The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
Ian Caldwell
#23. Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.
John S. Watson
#24. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
George H. W. Bush
#25. I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.
Kinky Friedman
#26. Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
S.I. Hayakawa
#28. I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'
Donny Osmond
#29. If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.
Cory Booker
#30. There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.
Jean-Francois Cope
#31. Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
Michael Ignatieff
#32. If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.
Greg Poehler
#33. I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'
Blake Shelton
#34. The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!
Jose Rizal
#35. Pope John Paul II once said as well, "Lebanon is a message more than it is a country." Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.
Rami Ollaik
#36. It's bad enough ... when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#37. Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.
Michael Ondaatje
#38. The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#39. 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.
Euvin Naidoo
#40. The EU project is to create a country called Europe.
John Redwood
#41. In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.
Andrew Jackson
#42. Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
Antonin Scalia
#43. I'm sure some of the things I went through pale in comparison to what some of the guys went through in World War II and other conflicts. On top of all the shit they went through in Vietnam, they had to come home to a country that spat on them.
Chris Kyle
#45. I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
Leymah Gbowee
#46. Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.
Angela Merkel
#47. I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.
Warren Buffett
#48. Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of this stance. They don't care how much the U.S. government badgers or attacks them.
Assata Shakur
#49. Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together ... It's been a really cool experience.
Sasha Pieterse
#50. It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.
Ben Linder
#52. Incidentally, over half the illegal population supposedly came to America after September 11, 2001.95 That's to say, they broke into a country on Code Orange alert. Odd that.
Mark Steyn
#53. I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.
Frank Zappa
#54. When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
Ming-Na Wen
#55. Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that place.
Jonathan Maberry
#56. Changing an organization, a company, a country - or a world - begins with the simple step of changing yourself.
Anthony Robbins
#57. A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return.
Henry Johnson Jr
#58. As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.
Julian Assange
#59. Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
Klaus Schwab
#60. There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.
Patricia Wentworth
#61. If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.
Sunday Adelaja
#62. I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!
Jessica Brown Findlay
#63. It is all one spectacle of forces running to waste, of people who use and do not replace, the story of a country hectic with a wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking.
H.G.Wells
#64. America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#65. Our public lands - whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie - make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America.
Terry Tempest Williams
#66. I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.
CeCe Winans
#67. This is a country that can't even make toasters," he said. "And while they can make missiles, they can't feed their population.
David E. Hoffman
#68. I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.
Travis Fimmel
#69. I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me.
Randy Moss
#71. We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature ... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
Lewis Thomas
#72. I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner.
Jim Cramer
#73. It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.
Mark Helprin
#74. Can a country's people be better than its planes?
Ismail Kadare
#75. A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
Gloria Steinem
#76. When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.
Stephanie Oakes
#77. The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy can reassure its neighbors that it is not going on a war footing, which can defuse a Hobbesian trap and cramp a leader's freedom to engage in risky bluffing and brinkmanship.
Steven Pinker
#78. It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
Amanda Lindhout
#79. He decided that whatever he'd think of England, at least it was interesting. It felt as if it had seen what's different and weird elsewhere, and had come together as a country with the sole purpose of outdoing that.
Silver Saaremaeel
#80. The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.
Martin Luther
#81. When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
Ann Patchett
#82. One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
Alvar N. C. De Vaca
#83. Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.
Mary Church Terrell
#84. A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
Tristram Stuart
#85. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Truman Capote
#86. When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.
Miguel Syjuco
#87. The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.
Eric Schmidt
#88. But a great number of educators spoke of "personal responsibility" in a country authored and sustained by a criminal irresponsibility.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#89. A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
Vinoba Bhave
#90. Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.
Gore Vidal
#91. There is a proverb that says America is always 3 days away from revolution. Stop delivering food to the supermarkets, and see what a country of 300 million people with a strong sense of entitlement and over 250 million guns have to say about it.
Craig DiLouie
#92. The superhero, his underwear bagging at the seat and knees, is just a country boy at heart, tutored to perceive all human action as good or bad, orderly or dynamic, and so doesn't know whether to shit or fly.
Robert Coover
#93. If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.
Jesse Ventura
#94. A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
Hayden Christensen
#95. It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.
Criss Jami
#97. I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.
Luke Bryan
#98. I love going into a country and just blending.
Freida Pinto
#99. Some events in the life of a person, or a company, or a business, or even a country prove turning point.
Girdhar Joshi
#100. A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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