Quotes About Country

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word. . . .that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Martial was among many who extolled the healthy life in the country, but he, at least, retained his sense of irony. My orchard isn't the Hesperides There's no Massylian dragon at the gate, Nor is it King Alcinous' estate; It's in Nomentum, where the apple-trees, Perfectly unmolested, bear a crop So tasteless that no guard needs be kept.

The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.

What I am trying to say is that for a few minutes I had what almost felt like a vision: that there was deep, deep unrest in the country and that the whisperings of a civil war seemed to move around me like a breeze I could not quite feel but could sense. We got our ice cream and we left, and I told William what I had felt and he said, "I know.

This is the sea! It was like a foreign country to me. Except, in truth, foreign places always frighten me. I like places that are familiar.

The vote for the Constituent Assembly showed that if a determined leader such as Kerensky or Kornilov decided to rally patriotic feeling across the country, that feeling could turn against the German invader as well as Lenin's Bolshevik accomplices

What Wilson aspired to be, to be hailed as the savior of his people and the light of humanity, Lenin had already achieved, but through unbelievable brutality and ruthlessness, and in a broken, starving country.

This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

I'll find my father through words. I'll bring him back to life with words. I will build a cathedral of words. I'll create a country will my words. In my words I'll find the universe and i'll understand the eternal present through my words. In my words, I will find, I will end, I will become the words themselves, become words, words, words, I will incarnate words, words, words.

Porque el país en el que vivían no deseaba cambiar. Había demasiadas fuerzas oscuras tirando en dirección contraria.

En cuestión de afectos, la guerra era el país de los hombres solos.

Éste es un país rico, desde luego, dotado por la naturaleza. Pero todo lo chupa el desagüe de la vanidad, la codicia y la injusticia.

The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we're not careful we might be remembered as the country who arrived to late.

There is that sense of belonging one never has except in one's own country. Anywhere else, no matter how long you stay, they never let you forget you are alien. Indeed, it is a good thing, because it is on foreign soil that you are made more conscious of your own roots and consequently become more knowledgable. And that is why, in my writings, I talk of my country, present my people to others.

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

We in this country seem to be in denial about mental illness' the King said in his closing arguments. He went on to say that this must change. 'This is the place and the time is now' he said. 'And it's going to take strength'.

Deutschland, Deutschland äber Alles [Germany above everything].

Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.

We were the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.

don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.

She was a woman who'd foolishly married a handsome, smooth-talking man. Now she was living a bad country song.

That young men travel under some tutor, or grave servant, I allow well; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and hath been in the country before; whereby he may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen, in the country where they go; what acquaintances they are to seek; what exercises, or discipline, the place yieldeth. For else, young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.