The Country Quotes
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
— Lance Armstrong
Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
— Robbie Robertson
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
— Fanny Fern
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
— Percy Sledge
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.
— George W. Bush
The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Urban development in India ... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.
— Kushal Pal Singh
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
— Alexander Hamilton
The vote has been costly. Prize it ... understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.
— Kelli O'Hara
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
— Arthur Laffer
Right from the start we were an unlucky country.
— Malala Yousafzai
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
— Thurgood Marshall
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
— Tony Perez
There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.
— Arnold Bennett
If the Christians of this country would only rise up, we could evangelize America in twelve months.
— D.L. Moody
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
— S.I. Hayakawa
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.
— William J. Clinton
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
— Neil Young
I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.
— Kristen Britain
None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
— Rush Limbaugh
Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight
My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you — Blake Shelton
My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you — Blake Shelton
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
— Patrick Soon-Shiong
I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.
— Fawzia Koofi
We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
— Molly Ivins
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
— Stonewall Jackson
The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.
— Joe Biden
Barack Obama has been the architect of policies that have hurt our country domestically as well as foreign.
— Robert Pittenger
The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land. — Lailah Gifty Akita
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
— Kym Whitley
Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
— Ted Cruz
we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood.
— Rick Yancey
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
— Sunday Adelaja
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
— Jonathan Swift
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
— Bill Maher
I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.
— Stephen Harper
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.
— James Hilton
Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks.
— Thom S. Rainer
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
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
— Frederick Lenz
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
— Jane McGonigal
We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.
— James Lankford
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
— Tony Blair
India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
— Gary Weiss
If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.
— Sarah Wollaston
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'
— Ronald Reagan
By 1900, electric delivery wagons, trucks, buses, ambulances, and taxis were roaming city streets across the country.
— Seth Fletcher
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
— Edwin Hardy Amies
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
— Benjamin Franklin
After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let's work together to make a difference for our country.
— Kevin McCarthy
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
— Joseph Brodsky
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
— Tony Abbott
When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.
— Jenna Bush
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
— Marina Lewycka
Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country
— Philip Vera Cruz
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
— E. V. Lucas
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
— Louis O. Kelso
I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.
— Theresa May
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
— Nathaniel Branden
Tom's country ends here: he will not pass the borders. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.
— Charles M. Schwab
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
— Peter T. King
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
I have always applied myself the same for club and country.
— Steven Gerrard
Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
— Yoko Ono
Will America lead ... and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?
— Susan Hockfield
The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
— Faye Wattleton
You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
— William J. Clinton
A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.
— Mark Twain
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
— James Monroe
There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.
— James Brolin
Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
— Wayne Rooney
Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid.
— Arthur Conan Doyle