Quotes About Country

Viewing an American University art exhibition dedicated in my honor, the last thing I expected was to be accosted by a ninety-year-old Jewish woman whose head barely reached my belt. "I like you, but I don't like everything your country does," she growled. "Excuse me, ma'am," I courteously replied, "but do you like everything your country does?" "No." She wagged her finger in my face. "But your country must be perfect.

Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country. The very idea is preposterous. Universities are the backwater. Don't look so surprised. I'm not saying anything you don't know. Since World War II, all the really important discoveries have come out of private laboratories.

You want a university appointment?" "Yes." "That's a mistake," Hammond said briskly. "At least, if you respect your talent." Wu had blinked. "Why?" "Because, let's face facts," Hammond said. "Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country. The very idea is preposterous. Universities are the backwater. Don't look so surprised.

La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto. No importa qué pueda conseguir un hombre sacrificándose por su país, siempre se saca mayor provecho dejando que otros lo hagan primero.

the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminal gangs, to break into our country. We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration laws, and support our ICE and Border Patrol agents – these are great people, these are great, great people that work so hard in the midst of such danger – so that this can never happen

been the formal policy of our country since President Monroe that we reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs. The United States has recently strengthened our laws to better screen foreign investments in our country for national security threats, and we

All the risks are science-based," said John MacWilliams when he saw the budget. "You can't gut the science. If you do, you are hurting the country. If you gut the core competency of the DOE, you gut the country.

The CDC does not know how to pull the fire alarm. In fact, there is no fire alarm in this country.

What she cared about, suddenly, was this rogue group of patriots who were working behind the scenes to save the country.

You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry.

The biggest problem the banks had was that they had lent roughly 30 billion euros to the Greek government—where it was stolen or squandered. In Greece the banks didn't sink the country. The country sank the banks.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.' Ruskin

a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.

Why are they blockading Cuba? Because no other country has done more for its people. It's the hatred of the ideas that Cuba represents.

the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country.

I come from oldest country in the world and everybody know when Iron Sheik see the bad person like the OJ Simpson or jabroni Chris Brown or the good man like the Ray Lewis, I respect them or break their back.

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it.

I sing what I want to sing and, if in the middle of the show I feel like doing a Frank Sinatra song, I will, but for the most part my show is a country show.

Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.

My sincere effort always will be to lift the reputation of the Indian team and my country whenever I play for India.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.