Quotes About Country

Our great gift as a country is its size and its relative emptiness, its elbow room. That space allows for difference and is often mistaken for tolerance. The person who dares to violate that space is the real traveler.

If you didn't want drugs in your country, we wouldn't have cartels in ours.

And I had the gringo's instant assurance that my country, and my car, was just behind the humongous wall.

A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.

This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been.

Y es que el invierno, la estación más desnuda del año, revela las carencias y pesares de un país que creyó haber superado la fonola tercermundista, un país narciso que se mira la nariz en los espejos de los edificios, un país que se piensa modelo de triunfo, y al menor desastre, al menor descuido, la indomable naturaleza manda guarda abajo el encatrado del éxito.

If we're going to have arguments, let's have arguments — but let's make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

I am afraid of other things, of a world that allows a travesty to exist like the one we just lived, where brother betrays brother and nothing is safe or true or right. We allowed that to happen. We gave our country away. We allowed evil to exist and to prosper.

now, in his country, and in her mind, those stars belonged to

while economic institutions are critical for determining whether a country is poor or prosperous, it is politics and political institutions that determine what economic institutions a country has.

after 1688 the state began to rely more on talent and less on political appointees, and developed a powerful infrastructure to run the country.

Have it your own way," she said, "but I always thought detectives waited until they had every little detail fixed in—" "And then wonder why the suspect's had time to get to the farthest country that has no extradition treaty.

In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.

Twain had found Palestine to be very tiny, writing that he "could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

The lights blazed from every window and Decker could hear the music blasting out of the place. It was country, with a dash of rock and roll, at least to his ear. It shot through the air like a sound cannon.