Country Quotes · Page 124

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

— Mason Cooley

I am proud to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which has one of the largest and diverse populations in the country.

— Charles B. Rangel

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

— Kinky Friedman

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

— Emmylou Harris

Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her.

— Nikki Blonsky

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

— Umberto Eco

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

— Sun Ra

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

— George W. Bush

I think we don't need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don't speak the…

— Bernie Ecclestone

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all…

— Justin Simien

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country…

— Bill Gates

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of…

— Tobias Lindholm

Title 42 authority has been applied, irrespective of the country of origin, irrespective of the race of the individual, irrespective of other…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and…

— Mel White

I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator…

— John McCain

If you make, if you work an 8-hour job, if you do rebar, if you do electrical. I think that value of…

— Sean Strickland

This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use…

— Frederick Seitz

Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the…

— Leon Trotsky

This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,…

— George B. Cortelyou

It is hard to compare cultures without overgeneralizing, but I think a lot of American poetry has an assertiveness - an upbeat…

— James Arthur

There are so many people that do things better than I do: dancing, singing like a black girl, singing country. Or if,…

— Nellie McKay

And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end…

— Mike Penner

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and…

— Hiromu Arakawa

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

— Pliny the Elder

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own…

— Farah Diba

No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country.

— Ivica Dacic

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

— Barack Obama

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in…

— Thomas Piketty

The government should only have one voice so the country knows what we stand for, so the world knows what we stand…

— Esther McVey

It's the best feeling, representing your country, and I always want to perform and give 100% for the team.

— Victor Moses

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

— Esther McVey

I've got the conservative ideas for putting our country back on track.

— Elizabeth Emken

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

— Alan Cumming

One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

— Geoff Capes

Boston is one of the country's more insecure cities and see you it in Celtics fans.

— Sean Evans

As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.

— Opal Tometi

The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

— Phyllis Schlafly

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

— Barack Obama