Top 100 Quotes On My Country
#1. I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
Billy Corgan
#3. Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country's Western wilderness held in my mind the promise of escape from myself, the liberation only a huge transformation could grant me. This walk would be my salvation. It had to be.
Aspen Matis
#4. I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Bill Maher
#5. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
#6. I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
Jane Fonda
#7. My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#8. I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.
Anatoly Karpov
#9. I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E.Lee
#10. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
William Pitt
#11. What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.
Ivan Bagramyan
#12. I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco ... I think my country helped me.
J.K. Rowling
#13. I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
Mariano Rivera
#15. But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That's how it generally goes in my country. But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again.
Catherynne M Valente
#16. Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
Boris Pasternak
#17. The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.
Manny Pacquiao
#18. I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
Manny Pacquiao
#20. I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.
Atifete Jahjaga
#21. Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
Emir Kusturica
#22. 36 Behold, I am Moroni, your chief captain. I aseek not for power, but to pull it down. I bseek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare of my country. And thus I close mine epistle.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#23. I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.
Mitt Romney
#24. I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!
Pearl S. Buck
#25. My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
Herbert Hoover
#26. Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing.
We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn't complete yet.
M.F. Moonzajer
#27. I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
George Washington
#28. My country pays me a little blood money every month in exchange for my leg. She
Sara Pennypacker
#29. My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.
Hee-seop Choi
#30. My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country
Doctor, that is a different case.
Andrew Jackson
#31. I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#32. The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#33. It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
Eric Cantona
#34. The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.
Ilan Ramon
#35. Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.
Fred Thompson
#36. I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country [Italy]. Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.
Andrea Bocelli
#37. I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.
Shakira
#38. I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.
John Quincy Adams
#39. I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
Wilhelm Canaris
#41. To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.
Filbert Bayi
#43. Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
Francois Hollande
#44. How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra.
"Almost seven years."
"Then you have probably forgotten all about it."
"Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
Jose Rizal
#45. May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike
#46. The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.
Jorge Ramos
#47. What I've accomplished for myself is beyond my wildest dreams. What I accomplished for my country is one of my most proud achievements.
Li Na
#48. You know what, man? I am going to literally - if (Palin) gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready - because you know what? It's for my country. It's for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it's for my country.
Christopher Titus
#49. I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
John J. Crittenden
#50. You are my country, Desdemona ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.
Connie Brockway
#51. So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.
Swami Vivekananda
#52. I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country ... I love this country so much.
Doris Day
#53. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan Hale
#54. I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
William Shakespeare
#55. The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
Zhou Yu
#56. I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.
Goran Visnjic
#57. I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.
Asghar Farhadi
#58. After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.
Pastor Maldonado
#59. Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#60. The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
F. R. Scott
#61. Fuck my country and yours, they will continue fighting whether we live or die. But I can't, and won't, go on without you. Not anymore.
S.A. McAuley
#62. The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
Lindi Ortega
#63. If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.
Thomas Jefferson
#64. It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.
Brad Stine
#65. I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#66. I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.
Lapo Elkann
#67. Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
Jackson Browne
#68. I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.
Shahar Pe'er
#69. It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.
Orhan Pamuk
#70. Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Robert Emmet
#71. I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
Julian Assange
#72. If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham Lincoln
#73. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond Tutu
#74. What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.
John McCain
#75. England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family are. Australia will always be there, but I've made the decision to live here.
Jason Donovan
#77. The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers ... I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country.
Narendra Modi
#78. Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
Richard Scaife
#79. I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.
Albert Einstein
#80. I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.
Sania Mirza
#81. This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.
Abbas Kiarostami
#82. I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.
Paul Henderson
#83. India means everything to me. It is my homeland. India is my country. It is here that I have gotten love and affection as a film star from millions and millions of my fans over the last five decades.
Dilip Kumar
#84. I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.
George Mason
#85. I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.
William Shakespeare
#87. But I don't shut up and I don't die.
I live
and fight, maddening
those who rule my country.
For if I live
I fight,
and if I fight
I contribute to the dawn.
Otto Rene Castillo
#88. I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.
Frank Lampard
#89. It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?
Zadie Smith
#90. One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
Pete Seeger
#91. Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.
Michel Houellebecq
#92. Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. "The world is my country," he said, "science my religion.
Carl Sagan
#93. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger
#94. People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
Joss Stone
#95. I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.
Althea Gibson
#96. As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.
George Papandreou
#97. I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.
Kristen Britain
#98. It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan
#99. We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss.
Anne Fortier
#100. I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
Douglas MacArthur