Country Quotes

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

John Fahey
- Writing
- Why
- Book
Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.

Peter Bergen
- Country

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

Patrick Kavanagh
- Writing
- Country
- Man
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Bill Vaughan
With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

David Douglas Duncan
- Country
- Fear
Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

Jamie Dimon
- Job
- Kids
- City
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Donna Shalala
- World
- American
- Education
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

William Labov
- America
- Europe
- Covered