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Quotes About Country

Going back to your country and playing for a big team and being able to enjoy playing La Liga would be a good thing for my career.
~ Ayoze Perez
Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.
~ Scott Borchetta
Gujarat, which Modi has made the laboratory of Hindutva, is the leading edge of the onslaught of communal fascism in this country.
~ Prashant Bhushan
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.
~ Anand Sharma
I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did.
~ Theresa May
The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.
~ Liz Kendall
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—" "So has the plague.
~ Karen Chance
He thought, This country does attract fanatics and torment them.
~ Karen Fisher
The country was so vast, of course, that one or a hundred or a thousand men could have very little effect. And how, anyway, could one fault a people bringing schools and churches and all the goods of industry? Still, there was always something about newcomers laying claim that made him uneasy, as though he were being robbed some way, or made to give over something he had never thought to value.
~ Karen Fisher
The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.
~ Karen Russell
The secret magic of this country lay hidden, buried under buildings and blood; but it had never gone away, and it would never disappear. It lay waiting, lost in its own endless dream.
~ Kate Constable
The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.
~ Fyodor Tyutchev
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
~ G. K. Chesterton
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
~ Gunter Grass
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
The state's ability to rear, educate, and prepare all the little Texans to take their place in the national economy is going to be an excellent predictor of how well the whole country will be faring down the line. We will get into that later, but—spoiler alert—the
~ Gail Collins
Only once have I had the courage to ask Matsu what he felt about his country's victories in China. He was in the kitchen reading a magazine, as his radio blared from his room. He looked up at me and simply said, "Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
~ Gary Allan
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
~ Gary Hart
cabins and clapboard houses
~ Gary McCarthy
Eating chestnuts is a sign of poverty. Because wheat bread is eaten in the city, chestnut bread is associated with the poor country table.
~ Gary Paul Nabhan
By the mid-1980s the health craze had swept the country, and the cocktail scene was all but dead.
~ Gary Regan