Quotes About Country

The world knows nearly instantly of our military actions abroad, but we seem to think the selfless actions we take aren't worth publicizing effectively. That is not how a country best builds or exercises power.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.

It is this entitlement mentality that is eroding the foundations this country was built upon. The entitlement mentality is bringing down the American empire and the world.

Many public servants retire earning much more than military veterans who risked their lives serving their country.

Anne, commenting on city life] I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.

It was very humiliating to be worsted by a girl—a country girl at that, who had passed most of her life on a farm! No doubt she was strong-minded and wanted to vote. I was quite prepared to believe anything of her.

El pasado es un país extranjero: allí las cosas se hacen de manera distinta.

Like the deepest secrets in a psychoanalysis, our lives stay hidden, harboring our precious information like a piece of decaying food behind a major molar in our country's maw

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

This is Indian country, isn't it?" Laura said. "What did we come to their country for, if you don't like them?

San Francisco, September 13, 1915 Believe me, there is no place like the country to live, and I have not heard of anything so far that would lead me to give up Rocky Ridge for any other place.

She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red.

Take care. It seems to me that people have only been saying that phrase on parting for the past few years or so. All of a sudden everyone started to say it, as if the whole country abruptly recognized that ours is a world which demands caution.

I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.

A lot of country music is sad.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.