Top 28 Rough Country Quotes
#1. A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.
Louis L'Amour
#2. There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.
Brenda Strong
#3. White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.
James Howard Kunstler
#4. The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
Washington Irving
#6. I threw tantrums, I acted stubborn, I was a pain sometimes, but I was still loved. In fact, I was their perfect even in my imperfection.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#7. Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.
Sammy Kershaw
#8. I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
Daniel Radcliffe
#9. Prayer is primarily for loving and worshiping God. If you would seek first His kingdom and just fellowship with Him, you'd find your needs already provided.
Andrew Wommack
#10. The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
William Henry Ashley
#12. The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires - to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.
- chapter 8
Sinclair Lewis
#13. I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.
Anthony Mackie
#14. Sometimes we don't have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith
Sunday Adelaja
#15. Now the country is in a terrible state and you've blamed it on a number of things - unemployment rate, the value of the pound, and all that. It's actually because the national anthem is boring.
Billy Connolly
#16. Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack ... taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.
Jay Heinrichs
#17. People sleep peacefully in their beds at night, because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
(By George Orwell) Describing your country's servicemen.
Steven Preece
#18. If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything - literally and figuratively.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. Who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.
Ramez Naam
#20. Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
Jerry Coleman
#21. I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.
Rupert Graves
#22. There are comforts in knowing the boundaries of the place you live. Everyone here seems to behave like things are endless.
Anthony Doerr
#23. ...the philosopher's professional addiction to furniture...
J.L. Austin
#24. Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
Charles Kuralt
#25. Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
Andrew Oliver
#26. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
Cody Johnson
#27. The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#28. If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.
Mitt Romney
