Country Quotes
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I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland - some of the funniest heckles I've ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.
Bill Burr
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
Lee Iacocca
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We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
A. J. P. Taylor
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The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.
Nelsan Ellis
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A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
Vladimir Lenin
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It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
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I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.
Caitlin Rose
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It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yutang
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I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.
Lindsey Haun
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I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
Dennis Kucinich
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Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.
Alfred P. Sloan
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
Samuel Johnson
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To US Ambassador H. Monroe Browne, who owned a racehorse called Lacka Reason: 'You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy.'
David Lange
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My kids are from different countries, but there's an understanding, you don't have to like a country just because you were born in it. You need to respect all countries. And be very open to each other's, of course.
Angelina Jolie
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North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was in the worst situation, fighting for everything, to survive.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.
Pranab Mukherjee
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I'd like to say to Mr. and Mrs. Khan: thank you for immigrating to America. We're a better country because of you. And you are certainly right; your son was the best of America, and the memory of his sacrifice will make us a better nation - and he will never be forgotten.
John McCain
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The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
Bud Selig
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There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.
Peter Morgan
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I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.
Jim Gerlach
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I want to be very clear here - a politics that’s based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart.
Barack Obama
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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.
Miroslav Vitous
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After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran