Quotes About Country

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?

Lamentable cries came to us from the West for the supplies which would enable patriotic citizens to defend their homes. The resource upon which the people had so confidently relied, the private arms in the hands of citizens, proved a sad delusion, and elsewhere it has been shown how deficient we were in ammunition, or the means of providing it. The simple fact was, the country had gone to war without counting the cost.

I don't believe this!" Jeremy uttered incredulously, nearly laughing at the absurdity. "Of all the major events to rock this country in the last half century, maybe with the exception of the Kennedy assassination, this one is the biggest, and the least known, mostly because of the orchestrated cover-up. And we are squarely…in the middle of it!

Incidentally, I don't see why the wine is as expensive as it is in the country that makes the stuff. Perhaps they can see you coming.

Butterflies are a cold-blooded species. That's why in the country you'll often see them sitting in the middle of the road. Try not to hit them with your car! (The butterfly does not survive this process.)

Iceland is a little country far north in the cold sea.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

I punch on the radio, but all I get is country music and static, and I don't know which is worse.

know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you're not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life." She

You know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you're not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life.

You know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you're not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life." She said, "I was born in Nashville

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.  This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England

Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country, and they wish to do something to clear themselves. They are trying to make it an anarchist plot. If they wish to make up a case, they may succeed.

The train whistled, and chuffed out of the station. The children pressed their noses to the window and watched the dirty houses and the tall chimneys race by. How they hated the town! How lovely it would be to be in the clean country, with flowers growing everywhere, and birds singing in the hedges! Pg 5

town, but now their father had a job in the country, so they were all to move as soon as they possibly could. 'What fun to be in the country!' said Joe.

The upshot is that if you identify self-interest with piety, honesty, country, parents and friends, then they are all secure.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America

A country with fewer atomic bombs than its adversary had an especially strong incentive to launch an attack out of the blue. And for that reason, among others, a number of high-ranking American officers argued that the United States should bomb the Soviet Union before it obtained any nuclear weapons. General

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.