Quotes About Country

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

And as long as I'm being brutally candid, I only wound up teaching American History because I followed a cute ass into the country-and-western section at Barnes & Noble

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.

During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

Our country is an agriculture-based country. And slowly, we are forgetting our roots.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

Obamacare won't just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals.

We are a small country and we have limited influence so we are neutral.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

We're a small country, and if you look at it that way, then we're at a disadvantage, though I know that most of the players who know or have come up against Uruguayans prefer to avoid us.

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

We are a small country. That means there will be lots of similarities in policies. The priorities are about the same issues - you have to create more jobs; you have to invest in people so they are qualified for the jobs the new economy will bring.

I'm from a small country town and to now be moving around with some of the largest names in Hollywood is a dream come true.

We have always felt the support of the Portuguese people. We are a small country, but with many qualities.

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair.

Ajax has always been about homegrown players developed in a small country.