Top 100 Quotes About Country
#1. From outside Italy, dial your international access code, Italy's country code (39) then the number (including the '0').
Cristian Bonetto
#2. When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
Henry Rollins
#3. Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.
Dougray Scott
#4. It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.
Coretta Scott King
#5. I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
Abebe Bikila
#7. I'm proud to have so many great friends at country radio who believe in what I do - thanks to all of them.
Joe Nichols
#8. You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.
Woody Harrelson
#9. Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Greil Marcus
#10. The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.
Mahela Jayawardene
#11. The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Ad Reinhardt
#12. Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong
#13. Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
Lee R. Raymond
#14. I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini
#15. The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
William H. Seward
#16. Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.
Vandana Shiva
#17. Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.
Roseanne Barr
#18. There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
#19. When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.
Christopher Dodd
#20. The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell
#21. If your countrymen think that privacy is a crime, so much the worse for your country.
James Baldwin
#22. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million people, a nearly 300% increase. We now lock up one out of every hundred adults, far more than any other country.
Piper Kerman
#23. If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.
Donald Tusk
#24. It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.
Anjelica Huston
#25. Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.
Herman Melville
#26. We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
Joseph Stalin
#27. I serve My Story.
I do not serve one Country.
Religion of Blue Circle
The Neverending Story
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 13, 2016
Petra Hermans
#28. Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
Al Gore
#29. I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
Gavin Friday
#30. This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Mark Frost
#31. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#32. I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.
Rand Paul
#33. The motivation I possessed to serve my country is what got me out of the small town of Lyons, Texas where I grew up, and into the world of service, love of country, helping others, and being an American soldier." (Page 90).
Kenneth A. Bracewell
#34. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo
#35. The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.
Lucas Papademos
#36. I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs
#37. It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren't supposed to do.
Gail Collins
#38. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
William Butler Yeats
#39. It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.
Gary Johnson
#40. Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?
Mo Ibrahim
#41. Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld
#42. The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#43. Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn't seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.
Dan Skinner
#44. Donald is intensely loyal. To family, friends, employees, country.
Melania Trump
#45. We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.
Pierre Bourgault
#46. The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.
Michelle Alexander
#48. Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.
Rush Limbaugh
#49. If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#50. Our wandering life isn't over yet and before we definitely settle in Peru, a country that I admire in many ways, or in Argentina, we want to see a bit of Europe and two fascinating countries, India and China.
Hilda Gadea
#51. This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!
Eleanor Roosevelt
#52. I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael ... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet ...
Lucinda Creighton
#53. 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
#54. Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.
Allen West
#55. I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
Najib Mikati
#56. My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
Junot Diaz
#57. Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.
Rafael Cruz
#58. The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.
Barack Obama
#59. Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.
Dierks Bentley
#60. 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
#61. People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.
Stella McCartney
#62. If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers' expense.
H.L. Mencken
#63. Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
Michael Cunningham
#64. My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.
Julie Salamon
#65. Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory
#66. I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.
John Nance Garner
#67. There is cheese from just about every country in the world except China. No cheese from China? Maybe tofu is Chinese cheese. No wonder there was a cultural revolution.
Jim Gaffigan
#68. Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump. Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation.
Rinker Buck
#69. In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
Harriet Harman
#70. For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.
Julie Delpy
#71. Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
Daniel Alarcon
#72. I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and now I'm at the national level and that doesn't happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I'm very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.
Ainsley Earhardt
#73. I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
Sara Sheridan
#74. One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.
Donald Trump
#75. Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.
Darryl Worley
#76. I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.
Kylie Minogue
#77. I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.
Tony Dungy
#78. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.
Audrey Niffenegger
#79. A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
Lamar Alexander
#81. Anger is sweeping the country! Tea bags from sea to shining sea! Voters everywhere exploding from frustration!" "Why?" "Because the facts don't support their beliefs.
Tim Dorsey
#82. There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.
Ezra Taft Benson
#83. Lives Matter" - Those that serve our country matter. Lets be part of the solution to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community. Change the Atmosphere, Change the Outcome!
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#84. By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#85. It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.
Steven T. Byington
#86. I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
Sayed Badreya
#87. We knoooooow," said Anthony, laying his head on the table. "You told us like a Brazilian times." "Bazillion," Tammy corrected. "Brazil is a state." "Country," I said. "Whatever,
J.R. Rain
#88. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.
Brad Paisley
#89. In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedomwhen people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
Tim Robbins
#90. The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
Dennis Prager
#91. 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
#92. There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
#93. Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.
Miranda Lambert
#94. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
Mario Testino
#95. Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
Azar Nafisi
#96. I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
Ian Rush
#97. It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.
Noam Chomsky
#98. My death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of "race," imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#99. When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#100. A traveling epic Hunkey, crossing and recrossing the country every year, south in the winter and north in the summer and only because he has no place he can stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, and keep rolling under the stars
Jack Kerouac
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