Country Quotes · Page 119

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

— David Bowie

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what…

— Steven Wright

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

— Nadine Labaki

Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

— Chris Lane

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

— Foster Friess

It was and still is the greatest highlight of my career, being a member of the Opry.

— Lorrie Morgan

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

— Manuel Puig

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

— Damon Albarn

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death…

— C.P. Snow

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful…

— Jared Diamond

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is…

— Barbara Stocking

Dublin and the Irish music scene in general has the exact same thing going on that Nashville has. Where authenticity is regarded…

— CMAT

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following…

— Leon Kass

Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since…

— DeRay Mckesson

Life throughs you curve balls but when your a counrty girl and they through you a city girls it is your mind…

— Michaelya Brittney Siemiaczko-Tucker

Especially as we engage in critical conversations about the vast inequalities that persist across our Commonwealth and our country, we need to…

— Abigail Spanberger

I figured, I am a product of the opportunity the country provided, and I understand the challenges of the middle class and…

— Ricardo Sanchez

I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had…

— Lisa Edelstein

There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of…

— Jean Monnet

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a…

— William Saroyan

Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the…

— Alex Tizon

Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced…

— Ilana Mercer

That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized…

— Nicolas Cage

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do…

— Alan Alda

Reveling in our opponents' missteps and losses drags us down as a country and diminishes our potential as people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

India is known to be a peace-loving country, we try to keep our peace treaties intact with other countries.

— Mohit Raina

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

— Bud Shuster

The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for…

— Ted Lieu

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

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

— Tulsi Gabbard

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

— Narendra Modi

I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

— Oliver North

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

— Barack Obama

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

— Calvin Coolidge

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you…

— John Bytheway