217 quotes found
“Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.”
“People who look down on us poor country folk usually wont admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.”
“If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I w...”
“You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.”
“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].”
“You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in th...”
“In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!”
“William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be creat...”
“It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.”
“May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!”
“lodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.”
“We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!”
“A killer is someone who killed another without their countrys permission.”
“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.”
“A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!”
“I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country ”
“The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.”
“So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States ...”
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapon...”
“There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.”
