Quotes About Country

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.

But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.

We're on our way to rescue a queen, overthrow an evil wizard, and win back a country. Care to join us? - Wolverine (Doomwar #1)

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. Orson Welles

What the country faces is not a crisis of leadership but a crisis of followership.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

Horroriza el nivel de ignorancia de este país y, sobre todo, de satisfacción con esa ignorancia. Es un país con mucha inquina y mucha mala leche, de escasa —por no decir nula— categoría moral. Y a mí me parece que si eres mínimamente culto, estás perdido.

La verdad es que la oportunidad se presenta constantemente. Es como que si vivieras en un país donde en cualquier sitio donde buscaras petróleo hayaras un pozo.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

Merriment seemed to be a favorite pastime in this country, where the citizenry take the concept of happiness very seriously.

Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.

In any event, this rather unbelievable story is known as a "foundation myth," commonly used in antiquity to describe and explain the rise of someone unexpected to the throne of a country or the leadership of a people. The

I stand for love and peace," he told the Times. "To my way of thinking, they're the same thing. But the man who said 'My country, right or wrong' made a slight error in judgment. My country wrong needs my help.

We may say what we like about his politics, but the king was a faithful husband who sincerely felt that those in power ought to comport themselves with decorum and restraint for the sake of the country.

Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country. Tocqueville

Future generations would be convinced that nothing good could ever have existed in a country that produced such evil. They would think only of these evils. It would be as if these unleashed dark forces had grotesquely marched like devils on dead horses, backward through the gash in the present, and had destroyed the German past too.

I remembered a joke I'd once heard, that if you play a country song backward, you get back your girlfriend, your dog is no longer dead, and your brother is released from prison.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.