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Quotes About Country

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
~ Robert Frost
This country is a very broad pan to be only human-nature deep.
~ Robert Frost
Even now I carry my voter-registration card in my wallet—reminding me of both my privileges and my obligations as an adult citizen in a free country. The card tells me much more than just the location of my voting booth. It's one of the most powerful talismans of my identity—even more important than a driver's license. Anybody can drive a car.
~ Robert Fulghum
I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
~ Robert Greene
and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and
~ Kenneth Grahame
I got up and left the house and drove out in the country, the stars were all shining and there were the farmlights and yardlights all looking blue in the dark. Everything looking normal, except nothing was normal anymore, everything was at some kind of cliff's edge, and late that night I came back.
~ Kent Haruf
In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.
~ Khushwant Singh
Country Future Index. It's an alternative to the GNP measurement, taking into account debt, political stability, environmental health and the like. A useful cross-check on the GNP, and it helps tag countries that could use our help. We identify those, go to them and offer them a massive capital investment, plus political advice, security, whatever they need. In return we take custody of their bioinfrastructure.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm og trængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg er flygtet fra det altsammen fordi det igjen kaldte på mig fra landet og ensomheten hvor jeg er fra. Du skal se det kommer til å gå godt! Tænker jeg og har atter det bedste håp. Ak jeg har gjort en slik flugt før og er atter vendt tilbake til byen. Og atter flyktet.
~ Knut Hamsun
I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.
~ Kristen Britain
It's the finest country in all the world, even if it is a fairyland, and I'm happy every minute I live in it, said the Shaggy Man.
~ L. Frank Baum
We are all vegetable, in this country. Are you not vegetable, also? No, answered the Wizard. People on top of the earth are all meat. Will
~ L. Frank Baum
traveling through her country. This made her angrier
~ L. Frank Baum
On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch. One one side, the bottom of this hill just touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins
~ L. Frank Baum
It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
~ Bob Corker
We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.
~ Barack Obama
I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.
~ George Carlin
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My love for my country is my religion.
~ Marie of Romania
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.
~ Philip Schaff
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
~ Saxby Chambliss
Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
~ Mick Jagger
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.
~ Calvin Coolidge
I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.
~ Bassem Youssef