Quotes About Country

We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

People felt sorry for me that I don't get a medal. I said, "Hey, I got my medal when I saw them put the medal around our players." I said, "I got my medal when they raised that American flag, and I got my medal when they played our national anthem." You know, I cried. I cried because I know that I had done something for my country.

Alas for my country, thy evergreen valleys, Are wet with a tide that is red, Alas for thy hills for they shudd'ringly cover War's sacrifice, bloody and dread!

I don't work for you. I work for the American taxpayers, who have spent years training me to protect and defend this country.

Word is you guys have one of the best cyber-crime units in the country." "The best. It's headed up by Mark Wolfe. He's a legend in law-enforcement circles.

En este país nuestro ha sido tanta la guerra, tanta, soportada por demasiado tiempo, que los vivos ya estamos acostumbrados y los muertos olvidados y no hay quien registre el catálogo. La violencia pesa y pasa, así sin más, pasa y arrasa, y la muerte se ha ido volviendo vida cotidiana.

Este crimen se impone como un espejo, y el monstruo que allí se refleja tiene la cara del país entero.

I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

Manuel punished those responsible, but the legacy of bitterness lingered, and many Jews left the country for the Netherlands.

Dee warned "neither France, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, nor any other country can have such liberty for invasion

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

Too unpatriotic, right, to tell you the horrible things our country's done before. The camps at Manzanar, or what happens at the border. They probably teach you that most plantation owners were kind to their slaves and that Columbus discovered America, don't they?

But PACT is more than a law. It's a promise we make to each other: a promise to protect our American ideals and values; a promise that for people who weaken our country with un-American ideas, there will be consequences. • from Let's Learn About PACT: A Guide for Young Patriots

One should not inhabit a country where one gets no respect, no opportunity to earn once's livelihood, where one has no friends or relatives, or from where one can not acquire knowledge.

This travelling was never about gaining merit or the absolution of sins. It was always the journey that mattered, and what these travels could tell me about the country and its history – a history so alluring, so epic as to keep drawing me back. There is so damn much of it, and so much still unexamined, still disputed, still buried and waiting to be brought back into the light.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

What is that sad, dark island?—It is Cythera,They tell us, a country famous in song,Banal Eldorado of all the old bachelors.Look! after all, it is a poor land!

Secretly, Lucien was ashamed that he was so useless to his country. Sometimes, he felt guilty that he was alive.

Be England what she will,With all her faults she is my country still.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact.