Quotes About Country

You know, I think it's something I want to teach my children, to ask questions and not be afraid to disagree with people in power. Always question, scrutinize everything they do, because they are leading the country, and it's important to me. That is patriotic.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

It has nothing to do with money. We don't play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our country and the opportunity to create history and be the best team in the world.

The elite footballers of one country meet at the national team and it's an honour for me to be among them.

A national team is a reflection of its country's football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they've achieved.

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

There's a certain - there's a different pressure with playing in a Ryder Cup. You know, you're not just playing for yourself. You're playing for your teammates. You're playing for your country.

Of course, in the beginning it's always difficult. It's a new country, new teammates, so you need to find the relationship with all the players. Obviously it takes time.

My country," Prince Bernhard observed, "can never again afford the luxury of another Montgomery success.

We do not pray for victory, nor even for our individual safety. But we pray for help that none of us may let a comrade down - that each of us may do his duty to himself, his comrades and his country, and so be worthy of our American heritage.

Occasionally the ideals seemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, but in times of moral quandary a conscientious officer could anchor himself with a few simple questions: Is it good for the troops? Is it good for the country? Is it honorable?

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

It was not that I sounded Southern--Southerners are some of the most pretentious people on earth--but that I sounded country, or since I was at Harvard, "rural.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Country's hip it's cool music.

What I have done is a duty that any Nicaraguan who truly loves his country should have done a long time ago.

Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country.

The Americans today who like to whine all the time because they say that taxes are too high and that government costs too much should leave their television sets behind for a while and go out and see the country they live in.

Historians have long been squeamish about acknowledging that General Washington, like many of the American founders, was a voracious land speculator. Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.