Quotes About Country

listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When

I'm not scared, though. Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine-gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.

I may be a country girl who's never been offplanet, but even I'm aware that when a Jedi walks up to you and says, Here, have a baby, it's not going to end well.

The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. —WILLA CATHER, MY ÁNTONIA

Es el reto al que nos enfrentamos todos. ¿Qué podemos hacer para mejorar nosotros y este país? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ser recordados? ¿Quiénes queremos ser?

But the ability to lead a nation is not a heritable trait like hair color or skin tone. It is a rare skill, indeed, and manifests itself only in persons whose unique combination of temperament, training, and experience have made them capable of seeing past the benefits that they can derive from their country, to the benefits that they can bestow upon that country.

But the queen thinks only of her country. She will stop at nothing to find the scrolls, for they are the key to her family's protection . . . and her country's salvation.

This is a new country, as you say. Why shouldn't it have new laws, new customs? And why should not those customs extend to the home itself. To—to love!

I got to Versailles, my blissfully simple country childhood would be over.

for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly? asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. The nerve!

Aimer et mourir Au pays qui te ressemble

Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

If it's in our constitution, if it's in our pledge, if it's in our courts, and it's on our money, yet we can't talk about it, what condition are we in as a country? In medicine we call it schizophrenia. And doesn't that describe a lot of what is going on in our society today?

When politicians prioritize local rule instead of trying to force the whole country to agree with them, I think the pursuit of happiness will be within the reach of a far greater portion of our populace.

America is one big maill with a country attached to it.

No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody lied to me. She groans. Billy, all these mofos ever do is lie. You think if they halfway told the truth we'd even be in a fucking war? You know what I think, I think we don't deserve to have you guys die for us. No country that lets It's leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it.

Siamo tutti bravi a chiacchierare, questo l'ho capito, ma adesso basta. Siamo tutti bravi a chiacchierare m a l'unica voce che conta è quella dei soldi, il nostro paese è questo, ragazzi. E io ho paura per questo paese. Penso che dovremmo avere tutti paura per questo paese.

she passed by the edge of the crowd, keeping a wide berth around a red-faced older woman who was shaking her fist in the air and shouting, "I want my country back!" When did people get so angry? Claire wondered.

And as we came among the houses we saw how large a town it was, larger than any we had yet seen, and were fll of admiration. It was so green with vegetation that it looked like a garden; and its streets were so full of men and women who had some out to see us that we gave thanks to God for the discovery of such a country.

Further, we requested his majesty not to send any lawyers into the country, as those persons, with all their learning, would merely breed lawsuits, discord, and confusion throughout the whole country.

Yet a little country in a big land has a small future. I knew that. To our north was Constantine's Alba, which we called Scotland, and Constantine feared the Saxons to our south. The Saxons and the Scots were both Christians, and Christians tell us that their god is love, and we must love one another and turn the other cheek, but when land is at stake those beliefs fly away and swords are drawn.