Flat Country Quotes

#1. It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

Tony Dungy

#2. The fault of this country is the want of measure in political life. Flat acquiescence in illegality, followed by sanguinary reaction - that, senores, is not the way to a stable and prosperous future.

Joseph Conrad

#3. Drivin' the green train I'm all like, Choo-choo! Choo-choo! Can't catch me! - Oh, poop! A

Rick Riordan

#4. The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.

Thomas L. Friedman

#5. I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.

Marti Webb

#6. Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Wally Lamb

#7. I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.

Baldur Von Schirach

#8. We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

Fergus Henderson

#9. What its children become, that will the community become.

Suzanne La Follette

#10. Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds.

Ann Voskamp

#11. To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Lew Wasserman

#12. Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.
(Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)

James Hogg

#13. I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

Robert Crumb

#14. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.

Veronica Roth

#15. Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

John Flavel

#16. Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well.

Nicola Sturgeon

#17. Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Walter Kaufmann

#18. You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can't do that.

Nikki Haley

#20. For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#21. In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Neil Kinnock

#22. This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats ... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

Mr. Lee

#23. I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

Bill Bryson

#24. If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

Andrew Johnson

#25. Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

Paul Engle

#26. If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.

Billy Graham

#27. Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

Greg Fitzsimmons