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Quotes About Country

The french are a moral people--judged, that is, by american country club standards.
~ John Steinbeck
It is snowing again. Confound it, will the winter never be over? I crave to have the solid ground under my feet. You cannot understand that craving if you have never lived in a country where every step was unstable. It is very tiresome and tiring to walk and have the ground give way under you at every step.
~ John Steinbeck
It is said that in a foreign country impressions are sharp and accurate for a month, and then they become blurred, and the reactions are not accurate again for five years, so that one should stay either one month or five years in a country.
~ John Steinbeck
The surface of the earth crusted. A thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red contry and white in the gray contry. (1) This describes the form of the book how the earth has been swallowed by the sun and allows you to assume that the farms are destroded.
~ John Steinbeck
Smiled with amusement at the myths of these country boys.
~ John Steinbeck
Purtiest goddamn country you ever seen, but they ain't nice to you, them folks. They're so scairt an' worried they ain't even nice to each other.
~ John Steinbeck
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.
~ John Updike
this country since 1865 has an unenviable record for political violence. Four presidents, plus the attempts on Truman and both Roosevelts—as you know, Teddy was actually wounded, in his unsuccessful campaign in 1912—not to mention Huey Long. There isn't a country west of the Balkans with any kind of the same record. The Prime Ministers of England go everywhere with a single bodyguard.
~ John Updike
When you're feeling despondent just put on more country music. There are thousands of slit-your-wrist hillbilly songs that will make you laugh at your self-indulgence and ultimately cheer you up.
~ John Waters
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
~ Unknown
Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!
~ Stan Smith
All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.
~ Mike Pence
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
~ Abigail Adams
He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.
~ Patrick Mouratoglou
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
~ Kenny Marchant
It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.
~ Nelson Piquet
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.
~ Tobias Lindholm
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
~ William J. Clinton
I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me and to my family.
~ Donald Trump
I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country.
~ Donald Trump
If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.
~ Ted Nugent
I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.
~ Jon Tester
When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
~ Bat for Lashes
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.
~ Phil Robertson