Quotes About Country

Another visitor described them as "midget hells, where one lies awake and sweats the first half of the night, and frequently between midnight and dawn undergoes a fierce siege of heat-provoking nightmares." They seemed to be "designed by Detroit architects who probably couldn't envision a land without snow."19 Ford managers, said the priest, "never really figured out what country they were in.

What's government for if not to help those in need?' 'The Government help those in need?' I cried. 'My God, man! What country are you living in?

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

Made in Japan," "Made in Italy," "Made in the United States"—each has meaning to customers and infers that a product has certain qualities based on its country of origin. Such perceptions can change over time. Immediately after World War II, products made in Japan were considered of poor quality and inexpensive, which may seem hard to believe in light of the preeminent view of Japanese quality in the 21st century.

In fact, South Texas and Alaska might be the last places in the country where law enforcement would want to roll up on a property and have a look-see.

The only thing that rock & roll did not get from country and blues was a sense of consequences," the writer Bill Flanagan said to Neil Young in 1986.

It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.

I believe the most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of the government, and compel the members of the legislative branch to see that they have responsibilities of their own, grave and well-defined, which their official oaths bind them sacredly to perform.

I would say that it is an advantage to belong to a small country. We are apt to be less provincial in scholarly undertakings. We don't have enough literature in various problems - we must always look on the whole world. No country can be so provincial as a big country. The United States is, in my opinion, the most provincial country I have lived in - an I'm afraid that England and France don't come very far behind.

It's one thing to make war for your country, your family, even in pursuit of glory. It's another to believe that the people you fight are embodiments of evil and must be destroyed for that. I want this peninsula back. I want Esperana great again, but I will not pretend that if we smash Al- Rassan and all it has built we are doing the will of any god I know.

Know, all who see these lines, That this man, by his appetite for honor, By his steadfastness, By his love for his country, By his courage, Was one of the miracles of the god.

A legnagyobb szegénységi bizonyítvány mi vagyunk – mondja Adorján. – Szegénységi bizonyítvány err?l az országról. Hogy az értelmesek hiába találkoznak, nem tudnak mihez kezdeni önmagukkal és egymással.

No es por filantropía que hay que tener un país menos desigual, más homogéneo. Es para darle viabilidad al país mismo:

Lo cierto es que la primera nueva costumbre que el país adquirió fue la de negociar el incumplimiento de sus leyes.

Well, I tell you, Son. I've had my share of fighting. It never proves anything. Anything can fight. Dogs, cats, skunks, and such things. But a man is supposed to be different. He's supposed to have some sense. I don't mind a good fight if there's something to fight for. I'd fight for you and your mother and our country, but I won't fight for foolishness

The clever economists who tell us that we don't need British agriculture and that our farms should be turned into national parks seem to ignore the rather obvious snag that an unfriendly country could starve us into submission in a week. But to me a greater tragedy still would be the loss of a whole community of people like

Sad! But So disrespectful to the people who made this great country what it is" "You may remove all the works of art you want and even those statues but the memory and the history will still survive even though you throw a baby tantrum...You are still a no count individual until you grow up...If the shoe fits, wear it proudly..

This is my country; this is your country; "Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. "If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.

Sometimes I forget how country my accent is... Until I hear a recording of myself and I literally sound like cornbread.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every person, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor." And this DUMMY

Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache. (Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)

The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown. - Give it a name, citizen, says Joe. - Wine of the country, says he. - What's yours? says Joe. - Ditto MacAnaspey, says I. - Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.

You die for your country... I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life.