Country Quotes

• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Children
  • Teacher
  • Parent

• I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Dream

• As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Men
  • Fate
  • Determination

• Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Country
  • Nice
  • Perspective

• Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

  

  Carolyn McCarthy
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Gun

• Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Today
  • Soviet

• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Free
  • Read
  • Letters

• I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Country
  • Fight
  • Citizen

• If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

  

  George Holyoake
  • Country
  • Pay
  • Officers

• There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Country

• The valiant profit moreTheir country, than the finest cleverest speakers.

  

  Plautus
  • Country

• Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

  

  Alexander Beresford Hope
  • Country
  • Rights
  • Bill

• Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.

  

  Wally Byam
  • Europe
  • Heard
  • Canada

• I am deeply convinced that no interference from the outside, in any country, even a small one, let alone in such a vast and great power as the United States, can influence the final outcome of the elections. It is not possible. Ever.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Influence
  • Election

• We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

  

  Roland Martin
  • Change
  • Vote
  • Direction

• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Country
  • History
  • Effort

• Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Clear
  • Aim
  • Standards

• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Lying
  • Mystery
  • eautiful

• I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • World
  • Different
  • Son

• I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Strong
  • Earth
  • Proud

• As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Country
  • Gay
  • Attitude

• City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

  

  William P. Young
  • Country
  • Pain
  • Challenges

• Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.

  

  George Scratchley Brown
  • Force
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • Culture
  • Wonderful
  • Able

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