Country Quotes
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The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.
Eric Garcetti
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Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
Simon Schama
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One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
James Howard Kunstler
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We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.
Marsha Blackburn
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We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.
William Weld
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I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.
Nigel Lawson
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I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.
Jim Lehrer
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This country's gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it's ever been.
Steve Bannon
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Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
Vint Cerf
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It's time to move this country forward.
Grant Shapps
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A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
William Greider
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Why we are asking for increased defense capabilities of Ukraine? It's not for the offensive operation. This is for the defensive operation, to get peace you have to defend your country and you have to deter Russia, not allowing Russian troops to move further and further.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
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[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.
William R. Looney III
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She is probably one of the only players in the country that can play all 40 minutes in a game.
Gary Blair
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At, like, 11, I think, that was just me watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I whenever I had the chance, I would talk to myself, practise pronunciation. Then I found out about hip hop and became friends with American people through Twitter. I was like, 'Yo, I need to be in a country where everybody speaks the same language.'
Rich Brian
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I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
Carol Moseley Braun
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And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.
Jeff Daniels
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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
Henry Louis Gates
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Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.
James Cook
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People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.
Francisco Goldman
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My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'
Evgeny Morozov
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
William Penn