Country Quotes

• I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.

  

  Elle King
  • Good
  • School
  • Art

• I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Together
  • Ideas

• The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

  

  David K. E. Bruce
  • Country
  • Real

• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Men
  • Hand

• It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Sometimes

• When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • People
  • Question
  • Star

• Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

  

  Binod Chaudhary
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Business

• God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.

  

  John Updike
  • God
  • Country

• The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Country
  • Real

• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  

  Confucius
  • Country
  • Ashamed
  • Governed

• I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Country

• It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Influence

• Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Truth
  • Justice

• If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Country

• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • Country
  • California

• New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Country
  • City

• It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

  

  Charles Osgood
  • People
  • Country
  • Optimistic

• Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • Ideas

• We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.

  

  Charles Foster Johnson
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Today

• I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

  

  John Bolton
  • Country

• As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Animal
  • Ritual
  • Pointless

• 'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
  • Song

• Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Drawing
  • Cities
  • Fog

• I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Future

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