Country Quotes

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

William Wells Brown
- Men
- Age
- Born
He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

Joanne Rowling
- People
- Up
- Boy

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you livein our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Elisabeth Eaves
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack Red Revolution. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country United States of America. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.

Stuart Chase
- Believe
- Church
- Suffering
When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.

Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
- Time
- Band
- Rock
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

William Kunstler
- People
- Fighting
- Liberty
I don’t want to let my country down, now that expectations are so high.

Netta
- Country
- Want
- Expectation
"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."

Scott Westerfeld
- Tree
- Cutting
- Rain