Country Quotes

• The Beckhams are really inspiring and have very elegantly risen to being the most powerful brand in the country. I'm sure a lot of couples look at that and say, 'Wow.'

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Country
  • Brand
  • The Beckhams

• The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Up
  • Day
  • Rest

• I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Live
  • Movies
  • Italian

• I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Smart

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Country
  • America

• Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

  

  Ellen Key
  • World
  • War
  • Hate

• Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Country
  • Song
  • Better

• Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Music
  • Different
  • Just

• If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.

  

  Marlon James
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Rock

• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Country

• Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • She
  • America
  • War

• I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Up
  • Trying
  • War

• I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.

  

  Mary Pope Osborne
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • World
  • Music
  • Tattoo

• There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Perfect

• Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

  

  Mary Landrieu
  • Real
  • True
  • Hope

• In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • People
  • Men
  • Fighting

• No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Country
  • Lover
  • Discovering

• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Country

• Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Greatness

• For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
  • Country
  • Growth

• The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Couple
  • Air

• I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

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