Country Quotes

• Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Football
  • Humans
  • Stars

• I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Friend

• A poet can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Poet
  • Factory
  • Nail

• I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Men
  • Country
  • Silence

• We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.

  

  Brian Stelter
  • Media
  • Election
  • Donald Trump

• This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Revolution

• A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

  

  Sun Ra
  • People
  • Honor
  • Prophet

• Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

  

  Eula Biss
  • World
  • Luxury
  • Entertaining

• Media coverage both shapes and reflects public opinion. The press coverage in the run-up to the war was very pro-war and the country was very pro-war.

  

  Andrew Kohut
  • Country
  • War
  • Opinion

• What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

  

  William McKinley
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

  

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Difficult
  • Issues
  • Talk

• Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications have to be given up. It is very difficult for people because they are so conditioned and as long as you have conditioning you cannot rise above your mind, which is a myth, you cannot.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Country
  • Love
  • Wisdom

• In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Country
  • Granted
  • Resource

• Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mean

• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  

  Allan A. Lamport
  • Country
  • Nation
  • Canada

• Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • America
  • Democracy

• I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • People
  • Kind
  • Focused

• I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Live
  • America

• This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Country
  • Running
  • Indian

• Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

  

  George Washington
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Jesus

• When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk.

  

  Caroline Glick
  • Risk
  • Ignore
  • Saying

• Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Dust

• The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Influence
  • Economy
  • Stability

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