Quotes About Country

I always wanted to be one of the best, make a mark on the history of the game. For me, for my country, for my family.

I want us to be a country of free ideas, free markets, and a freedom to dream.

one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin (rest here).

Today's Democrats in this sense are heirs of Jackson. They too appropriate resources from others and distribute them among Democratic constituencies, trading favors for votes. They too pose as the friends of those they are stealing from, justifying their confiscations as good for the victims and good for the country.

The point is that the American model has proven far more hospitable to nonwhite immigrants than the Nordic model, and leftists in this country realize that.

I am not nostalgic for a country which doesn't yet exist on a map." [...] I am not nostalgic. Belonging does not interest me. I had once thought that it did. Until I examined the underpinnings. One is mislead when on looks at the sails and majesty of tall ships instead of their cargo.

Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

That night, after the movie, driving my father's car along the country roads, I began to wonder how real the landscape truly was, and how much of a dream is a dream.

He was a foreigner here. There was no profit in discontent. He could not apply his bitterness. It was American-made and had no local standing. For the first time he realized what a dangerous thing he'd done, leaving his country. He struggled against this awareness. He hated knowing something he didn't want to know.

She missed the autumn weekends at somebody's country house, leaf-fall and touch football, kids tumbling down grassy slopes, leaders and followers, all watched by a pair of tall slender dogs poised on their haunches like figures in myth.

In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it's an embarassment to our country.

I don't want to stop legal immigration to this country. In fact, I would like to reform and increase immigration in some important ways. Our current immigration laws are upside down—they make it tough on the people we need to have here, and easy for the people we don't want here. This country is a magnet for many of the smartest, hardest-working people born in other countries, yet we make it difficult for these bright people who follow the laws to settle here.

So Shower Heads, You Take a Shower, the Water Doesn't Come Out. You Wanna Wash Your Hands, the Water Doesn't Come Out…Dishwashers, You Didn't Have Any Water…In Most Places of the Country, Water Is Not a Problem. They Don't Know What Do With It. It's Called Rain

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

Out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once I found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading, her fur coat thrown over her knees. Things would have been terrible strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker.

Perhaps the greatest social servise that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family George Bernard Shaw

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country