Quotes About Country Pride

#1. There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

Charley Pride

#2. I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Thomas Peterffy

#3. Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

Liz Kessler

#4. I anticipate with joy the approaching period when the stigmas of poverty and pride so liberally bestowed on the highlanders by our southern gentry will be as inapplicable to the inhabitants of that country as of any in the island.

James Hogg

#5. A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

Jairam Ramesh

#6. Let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect.

Jose Rizal

#7. It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

Charley Pride

#8. It was a strange thing to be in a distant land, among things you'd never seen before, all because our people in Congress had squabbled among themselves and failed to get along and there were hotheads in the South who thought more of their Negroes and their pride than they did of their country

Shelby Foote

#9. Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

John G. D. Clark

#10. We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#11. Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

Eliot Spitzer

#12. The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

#13. This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Gloria Steinem

#14. I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

Loretta Lynn

#15. I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#16. I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

Charley Pride

#17. Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

Lewis H. Lapham

#18. Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

Paul Martin

#19. Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.

George Washington

#20. I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

Charley Pride

#21. I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.

Augustus Washington

#22. Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.

Dave Foley

#23. The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Charley Pride

#24. It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#25. Pride of place in my wardrobe is an Edwardian-style Norfolk Jacket in Derby Tweed. It is silk-lined with leather-clad buttons and has a smell that reminds me of wet moss and fallen leaves.

Fennel Hudson

#26. I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.

Sara Sheridan

#27. For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people's most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.

Jessica Shattuck

#28. It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

Christopher Hitchens

#29. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#30. 'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

William Shakespeare

#31. One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Taylor Swift

#32. Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.

Cheryl Hines

#33. What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

Charley Pride

#34. When did all the men in her life become so addlepated over a few country misses?

Sue Barr

#35. Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing to engage in pride over fear and to admit the possibility that his sacrifice was hers, too. His sacrifice was something she had been able to give her country.

Lea Carpenter

#36. Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Charley Pride

#37. What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

Charley Pride

#38. It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Charley Pride

#39. From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

John Ratzenberger

#40. Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.

Amy Irving

#41. If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of our history, then we can't talk about the things that are inconsistent with pride, about which we can have no pride.

Bryan Stevenson

#42. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

Baha'u'llah

#43. I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

Christopher Dodd

#44. I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

Jennifer Nettles

#45. Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#46. Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

Idowu Koyenikan

#47. I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

William Habington

#48. National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Richard Rorty

#49. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.

Waller R Newell

#50. Yeah, do it for your people
Do it for your pride
How are you ever gonna know if you never even try?
Do it for your country
Do it for your name

The Script

#51. When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.

Anton Chekhov

#52. A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

Joseph Howe