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Quotes About County

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
~ Richard J. Daley
Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.
~ Denise Van Outen
There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.
~ Mike Pence
I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.
~ John Woolman
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.
~ Matthew Goode
In March the Lincoln County Weekly Tribune, revising its earlier bullish report,
~ Robert A. Carter
Mercer County is in the far northeast corner of Montana
~ Larry Watson
On the western edge of the county and extending into two other counties was the Fort Warren Indian Reservation, the rockiest, sandiest, least arable parcel of land in the region. In 1948
~ Larry Watson
Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed a shape for county and state government.
~ Andro Linklater
As for the evacuee children all over the county, their loving and starving parents, having had nearly four happy months of freedom, and seeing no reason why their children shouldn't be lodged, fed, clothed, educated and amused at other people's expense for ever, saw no reason to do anything more about them and hoped that the same fate would overtake the new baby whom most of them had had or were expecting. So all the hostesses buckled to afresh.
~ Angela Thirkell
I was the meal delivery coordinator for Clarke County for Meals on Wheels.
~ Fred Schneider
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.
~ Giles Deacon
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.
~ Denise Van Outen
it was one of the best places in Los Angeles County to spot the drunks, shoplifters, wife beaters, drug addicts, rapists, and murderers with verified Twitter accounts.
~ Lee Goldberg
When I was a kid, the county in which I lived was dry. That is, you had to buy your booze from a bootlegger in order to keep the church people happy.
~ Lewis Grizzard
The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
~ Alexandra Robbins
The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.
~ Dr. Seuss
Nevin, A. M. The Social Mirror: A Character Sketch of the Women of Pittsburgh and Vicinity during the First Century of the County's Existence. Pittsburgh, PA: T. W. Nevin, 1888.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.
~ Charles Hazlewood
Before Obamacare, insurance networks typically covered an entire state. Under Obamacare, insurers are able to bid to offer coverage mostly on a county-by-county basis. It means that health plans only need to fashion doctor networks as wide as the county that they're bidding to offer coverage in.
~ Scott Gottlieb
I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.
~ Peter Jones
If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.
~ Bill Flores