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Quotes About Country

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.
~ Evangelos Venizelos
In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.
~ George William Norris
Afghanistan has safe zones... so it's possible to send grown-ups back to that country. We can't empty Afghanistan.
~ Erna Solberg
When you travel to a new country, your spirit has to catch up with you. I love going for a run when I land; it keeps me active and helps my body adjust to the new time zone.
~ Jihae
Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
~ Sam Simon
My real personality comes out in the country. More spontaneous, more excited. There's always someone watching you in the city - you're a sort of zoo animal. My true nature is to want to hide a bit.
~ Liv Tyler
Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.
~ David Lilienthal
Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
~ Anonymous
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.
~ Simon Hoggart
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.
~ Paul Anka
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
~ Abraham Rotstein
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
~ Hugh MacLennan
Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.
~ Rupert Brooke
The habitant is the true Canadian, for he has no other country.
~ Ramsay Traquair
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God.
~ William Cowper
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
~ Lazare Carnot
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
~ Clark Ross Parker
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
~ Cedric Hardwicke
What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own?
~ W. E. Henley
The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
~ Arthur Helps
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini