Top 100 Country You Quotes
#1. If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.
Henry L. Stimson
#2. To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#3. We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.
Nick Cassavetes
#4. I am also incredibly proud of my party because today we have two strong woman candidates going to the country, we will have a women PM and it is the Conservative party yet again leading the way on this and it says to women all over the country you can get to the top.
Iain Duncan Smith
#5. Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
Michael Cunningham
#6. I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.
Eva Longoria
#7. No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.
Nelson Mandela
#8. The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.
Gil Scott-Heron
#9. To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
Jonathan Sacks
#10. When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.
Woody Allen
#11. The nation of Iran is threatening to sue the makers of the movie Argo. They say the movie was an unrealistic portrayal of their country. You can't do that! That would be like Scotland suing over the movie Shrek.
Craig Ferguson
#12. You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.
Sellapan Ramanathan
#13. It's all trickery. They keep you down and when they piss off some other country, you have to fight for them! It's only your country when they want you to get killed!
Terry Pratchett
#14. Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.
Fred Wilson
#16. My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.
Marjane Satrapi
#17. What I know: every relationship is its own place, a country you live in for awhile and then you leave.
Billie Hinton
#18. Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.
Mark Shields
#19. You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.
Tommy Lasorda
#20. White folk done took this country. You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it.You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.
Jeremiah Wright
#21. Oh, come on. What's that thing you say? The past is another country. You make out with different people there.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#23. 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
#24. Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like from the ashes.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#25. 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
#26. My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much.
Denis Villeneuve
#27. My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.
Sarah Hall
#28. In the country you preserve your identity -- your personality. There you are an aggregation of atoms, but in the city you are only an atom of an aggregation.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#29. You have to be strong; you have to trust yourself that you can bring down the dictatorship regime and build a new country. You have to be part of building your country. We know that anything that you dream can happen. You have to know that you have the ability to achieve your dream.
Tawakkol Karman
#30. There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
Joan Baez
#31. When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#32. I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'
Sharon Kay Penman
#33. if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.
Charley Boorman
#34. My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.
George W. Bush
#35. Believe that the anointing of God will find a way - even where you yourself don't see that there is a way. The anointing of the Lord will show the way - whatever the day and age, situation or country you may be living in.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. When you dare to think about how huge the illegal drug business is in this country, you have to suspect that practically everybody has a steady buzz on,
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
Vladimir Putin
#38. In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war.
Phil Klay
#39. The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.
Jose Contreras
#40. To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Albert Einstein
#41. I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
Yuri Kochiyama
#42. Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country - you only see friends there.
David Kirkpatrick
#43. Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.
Michael D. Barnes
#44. Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
Don McLean
#45. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
Howard Warren Buffett
#46. Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
Helen Clark
#47. Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
Margaret Atwood
#48. You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind.
I know you hate Americans, but
I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn't matter to me what country you're from. You women are fucking stupid, and I'm tired of saving you. All of you.
Allie Burke
#49. If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.
Alaa Al Aswany
#50. If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
Nora Ephron
#53. While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
Octavia Butler
#54. Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.
Kathryn Harrison
#55. By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.
Richard Holbrooke
#56. Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
Ron Livingston
#57. So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we?
Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds.
Cecelia Ahern
#58. If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie
#59. I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
Kelsea Ballerini
#60. You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.
Ninette De Valois
#61. You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.
Cristian Mungiu
#62. Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.
Terry Tempest Williams
#63. Refuse to feel like a foreigner on your own planet. The country you live in is simply another physical location of your own home.
Ben Tolosa
#64. In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
William Greider
#65. Some of you have it ingrained in you. You weren't born with it. No baby has hate for anything. We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn't care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.
A.S. King
#66. I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
Ben Katchor
#67. I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#68. I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
Cary Fukunaga
#69. 5 decades since JFK's inaugural address it is time now to ask, what your country can do for you & not what you can do for your country. You, my friend have done enough!
Anno Nomius
#70. Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
Cory Booker
#71. She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!
Laurie Halse Anderson
#72. Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
B.F. Skinner
#73. Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.
David Ortiz
#74. The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country ... You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.
Tim McCarver
#75. In this country you can say what you like
because no one will listen to you anyway
Margaret Atwood
#76. Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
Cindy Williams
#77. France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for.
James May
#78. You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
#79. The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
Vanessa Redgrave
#80. Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless
Alan Shearer
#81. It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
Bill O'Reilly
#82. I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#83. For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.
Evan Davis
#84. If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted.
Raymond J. Donovan
#85. Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
#86. Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
Amanda Bynes
#87. Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
Beto O'Rourke
#88. But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
Billy Bragg
#89. If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
Tim Wise
#90. I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#91. After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
Quincy Jones
#92. If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell
#93. How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
Michael Moore
#94. It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true
nobody will ever take you seriously.
Edward Abbey
#95. Today, a single affluent family generally has more timepieces at home than an entire medieval country. You
Yuval Noah Harari
#96. I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#97. To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people out there that you put your faith in things that are unable to be proven - that you suspend critical thinking as the way to go.
Bill Maher
#98. Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country
Tom Tancredo
#99. In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.
Alexei Navalny
#100. Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
Ralph Nader
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